Tree Roots and Buildings

Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective Specifying

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-127

  Percival, Glynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buildings; Damages; Oxygen; Relationship; Roots

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052701691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757208.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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