Low relative growth rates predict future mortality of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 302, Issue , 2013, Pages 372-378

  Gillner, Sten ^a   Rüger, Nadja ^b,c   Roloff, Andreas ^a   Berger, Uta ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Common beech; Crown decline; Dendrochronology; Mortality predictions; Vitality assessment

Indexed keywords

COMMON BEECH; CROWN DECLINE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH CHARACTERISTIC; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; RELATIVE GROWTH RATE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; VITALITY ASSESSMENT;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

FORESTRY;

AUTOCORRELATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NATURE RESERVE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; TIME SERIES; TREE RING;

FAGUS; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; MATERIALS HANDLING; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT;

GERMANY;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 84877058662     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.032     Document Type: Article

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