Pervasive growth reduction in norway spruce forests following wind disturbance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Seidl, Rupert ^a,b   Blennow, Kristina ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH INHIBITION; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY SPRUCE; SWEDEN; TREE GROWTH; WIND; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HURRICANE; SPRUCE; TREE;

HEXAPODA; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; PICEA; SWEDEN; TREES; WIND;

EID: 84857854219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033301     Document Type: Article

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