Possible causes of the recent rapid increase in the radial increment of silver fir in the Western Carpathians

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages 211-221

  Bošeľa, Michal ^a,b   Petráš, Rudolf ^a   Sitková, Zuzana ^a   Priwitzer, Tibor ^a   Pajtík, Jozef ^a,b   Hlavatá, Helena ^c   Sedmák, Róbert ^b,d   Tobin, Brian ^e  

^a NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c SLOVAK HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dieback; Growth recovery; Silver fir; SO2 and NOx air pollution

Indexed keywords

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; DIEBACK; GROWTH RECOVERY; RADIAL INCREMENT; SILVER FIR; SILVER FIR (ABIES ALBA MILL.); TEMPORAL CHANGE; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SILVER; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

FORESTRY;

NITRATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIEBACK; GROWTH RESPONSE; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION DECLINE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TREE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SLOVAKIA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE GROWTH;

ABIES ALBA; AIR POLLUTION; FORESTRY; SILVER; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIEBACK; GROWTH RECOVERY; SILVER FIR; SO(2) AND NO(X) AIR POLLUTION;

ABIES; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84884667517     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.08.036     Document Type: Article

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