Suitability of chestnut earlywood vessel chronologies for ecological studies

New Phytologist

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-86

  Fonti, Patrick ^a   García González, Ignacio ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Castanea sativa (European chestnut); Dendrochronology; Earlywood; Ring porous; Tree rings; Vessel size

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; TREE RING; WOOD;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

CASTANEA; CASTANEA SATIVA;

EID: 3042627325     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01089.x     Document Type: Article

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