The applicability of national forest inventories for estimating forest damage outbreaks - Experiences from a Gremmeniella outbreak in Sweden

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2605-2613

  Wulff, Sören ^a   Hansson, Per ^a   Witzell, Jesper ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b National Forest Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; INVENTORY CONTROL;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORELET EPIDEMIC; PLOT DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST INVENTORY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PEST OUTBREAK;

DISEASES; FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ASCOCALYX ABIETINA; GREMMENIELLA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 33845474861     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-148     Document Type: Article

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