Modelling tree growth. Concepts and review.

Terrestrial Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2011, Pages 221-240

  Landsberg, Joe ^a   Sands, Peter ^a  

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EID: 77957652679     PISSN: 19367961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374460-9.00008-1     Document Type: Book

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