Mechanical damage on Abies mariesii trees buried below the snowpack

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-40

  Seki, Takeshi ^a   Kajimoto, Takuya ^a   Sugita, Hisashi ^a   Daimaru, Hiromu ^a   Ikeda, Shigeto ^a   Okamoto, Tohru ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; SNOWPACK; TREE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; WORLD;

ABIES MARIESII;

EID: 18644382904     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2005)037[0034:MDOAMT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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