Plastic growth response of european beech provenances to dry site conditions

IAWA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 475-484

  Matovic, Bratislav ^a   Sass Klaassen, Ute ^b   Orlovic, Sasa ^a   Stojnic, Srdjan ^a   Eilmann, Britta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

European beech; phenotypic plasticity; provenance trial; tree ring width; wood anatomical structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890012393     PISSN: 09281541     EISSN: 22941932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22941932-00000038     Document Type: Article

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