Decline of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) stands in the Spanish Pyrenees: Role of management, historic dynamics and pathogens

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 252, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 84-97

  Oliva, J ^a   Colinas, C ^a,b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Armillaria; Forest decline; Forest dynamics; Heterobasidion annosum

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PATHOGENS;

ARMILLARIA; FOREST DYNAMICS; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM;

FORESTRY;

CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; LICHEN; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE;

ABIES ALBA; CHLOROSIS; DEFOLIATION; FORESTRY; PATHOGENS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; ARMILLARIA; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PINUS UNCINATA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 35548980454     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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