Ages and long-term growth patterns of four threatened Vietnamese tree species

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Zuidema, Pieter A ^a,b   Vlam, Mart ^a   Chien, Pham D ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Forest Science Institute of Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

^c Tropenbos Vietnam Programme   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Autocorrelated growth; Dendroecology; Juvenile selection effect; Threatened species; Tree age; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATED; DENDROECOLOGY; JUVENILE SELECTION EFFECT; THREATENED SPECIES; TREE AGE; VIET NAM;

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH RATE;

ECOLOGY;

CONSERVATION; DACRYDIUM; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GROWTH RATE; LIBOCEDRUS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; VIETNAM;

ANNAMOCARYA SINENSIS; CALOCEDRUS MACROLEPIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; DACRYDIUM (CONIFER);

EID: 78651424920     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0473-2     Document Type: Article

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