Relation between individual tree mortality and tree characteristics in a polluted and non-polluted environment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 517-540

  Juknys, Romualdas ^a   Vencloviene, Jone ^a   Jurkonis, Nerijus ^a   Bartkevicius, Edmundas ^a   Sepetiene, Janina ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Crown defoliation; Logistic regression; Pollution; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPETITION INTENSITY; TREE MORTALITY PROBABILITY; TREE SIZE;

FORESTRY;

FERTILIZER; MINERAL;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEFOLIATION; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST STAND; GROUPS BY AGE; POLLUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SCOTS PINE; TREE; AIR POLLUTANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LITHUANIA;

CROWNS; DEFOLIATION; FORESTRY; MORTALITY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FERTILIZERS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LITHUANIA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 33750325631     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y     Document Type: Article

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