Drought-induced decline and mortality of silver fir differ among three sites in Southern France

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 643-657

  Cailleret, Maxime ^a,c   Nourtier, Marie ^b   Amm, Annabelle ^a   Durand Gillmann, Marion ^a   Davi, Hendrik ^a  

^a French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

^b UAPV   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abies alba Mill.; Altitude; Decline; Drought; Growth; Tree mortality; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896264310     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-013-0265-0     Document Type: Article

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