Allometric equations for crown fuel biomass of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) in Greece

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 642-647

  Mitsopoulos, I D ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, A P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crown fires

Indexed keywords

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 35548947232     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF06038     Document Type: Article

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