Understanding how the Interaction of Wind and Trees Results in Wind-Throw, Stem Break-Age, and Canopy Gap Formation

Plant Disturbance Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-155

  Quine, Christopher P ^a   Gardiner, Barry A ^a  

^a Forest Research   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088778-1/50006-6     Document Type: Chapter

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