Increment cores from the Finnish National Forest Inventory as a source of information for studying intra-annual wood formation

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-140

  Nöjd, Pekka ^a   Henttonen, Helena M ^a   Mäkinen, Harri ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris; Radial increment; Tracheid formation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 41949084147     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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