Do changes in spatial distribution, structure and abundance of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) indicate its decline?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 844-854

  Ficko, Andrej ^a   Poljanec, Ales ^a   Boncina, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Decline; Regeneration; Slovenia; Spatiotemporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABIES ALBA; DECLINE; REGENERATION; SLOVENIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SILVER;

REFORESTATION;

ABUNDANCE; AGING; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SAPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SLOVENIA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

EID: 78651413161     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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