Dendrochronology in suboptimal conditions: Tree rings from medieval oak from Flanders (Belgium) as dating tools and archives of past forest management

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-144

  Haneca, Kristof ^a   Boeren, Ilse ^b   Van Acker, Joris ^a   Beeckman, Hans ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coppice; Dendrochronology; Expressed population signal; Flanders; Middle Ages; Quercus spp.

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 33644639592     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-005-0022-x     Document Type: Article

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