Is selective thinning an adequate practice for adapting Quercus ilex coppices to climate change?

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 575-585

  Rodríguez Calcerrada, Jesús ^a   Pérez Ramos, Ignacio M ^a   Ourcival, Jean Marc ^a   Limousin, Jean Marc ^a   Joffre, Richard ^a   Rambal, Serge ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; Forest adaptation strategy; Seed production; Sprouting; Stem growth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COPPICE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; RESPROUTING; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; STEM; SURVIVAL; THINNING; THROUGHFALL;

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 80051529628     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-011-0050-x     Document Type: Article

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