Consequences of decreasing the number of cored trees per plot on chronology statistics and climate-growth relationships: A multispecies analysis in a temperate climate

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2413-2422

  Mérian, Pierre ^a   Lebourgeois, François ^a  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES ALBA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FAGUS SYLVATICA; GENERAL METHOD; MULTI-SPECIES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; SAMPLE SIZES; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TREE SPECIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; PRECISION; SAMPLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; THRESHOLD;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICS;

FRANCE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 81755175644     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X11-149     Document Type: Article

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