Modelling the anchorage of shallow-rooted trees

Forestry

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-284

  Achim, Alexis ^a,b   Nicoll, Bruce C ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; RHIZOSPHERE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOT; ROOTING; WIND FORCING;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 68149148687     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpp004     Document Type: Article

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