Application of eccentric growth of trees as a tool for landslide analyses: The example of Picea abies Karst. in the Carpathian and Sudeten Mountains (Central Europe)

Catena

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-55

  Wistuba, Małgorzata ^a   Malik, Ireneusz ^a   Gärtner, Holger ^b   Kojs, Paweł ^c,d   Owczarek, Piotr ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d Silesian Botanical Garden ^*  (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dendrogeomorphology; Eccentricity; Landslide dating; Mass movement; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; ECCENTRICITY; GROWTH RATE; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; SLOPE STABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE; TREE RING; VEGETATION INDEX;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; SUDETES;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84882837163     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.027     Document Type: Article

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