Effects of weather conditions on mast year frequency in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Sweden

Forestry

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 555-565

  Overgaard R ^a   Gemmel, P ^a   Karlsson, M ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; MASTING; NUT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 38849188764     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpm020     Document Type: Article

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