Wood anatomical features in tree-rings as indicators of environmental change

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 21-36

  Wimmer, Rupert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Holztechnikum Kuchl Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross dating; Ecophysiology; Environment; Response; Stress; Wood anatomy; Wood structure

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 3042532536     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1125-7865-00005     Document Type: Article

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