Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cherubini, Paolo ^a   Humbel, Turi ^a,b   Beeckman, Hans ^c   Gärtner, Holger ^a   Mannes, David ^d   Pearson, Charlotte ^e,f   Schoch, Werner ^a   Tognetti, Roberto ^g   Lev Yadun, Simcha ^h  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GREECE; NONHUMAN; OLIVE TREE; PLANT AGE; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT STRUCTURES; SCANNING X RAY FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TREE GROWTH; TREE RING; TREE RING DATING; TREE TRUNK; TRUNK;

CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; GREECE; OLEA;

EID: 84873849336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054730     Document Type: Article

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