Temporal shifts of climate-growth relationships of Norway spruce as an indicator of health decline in the Beskids, Slovakia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 325, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-117

  Bošel'a, Michal ^a,b   Sedmák, Róbert ^b,c   Sedmáková, Denisa ^d   Marušák, Róbert ^b   Kulla, Ladislav ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Defoliation; Dendroecology; Emission reduction; Picea abies; Spruce decline

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DEFOLIATION; DENDROECOLOGY; EMISSION REDUCTION; PICEA ABIES; SPRUCE DECLINE;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DECLINE;

DEFOLIATION; ECOLOGY; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BESKYDY MOUNTAINS; CARPATHIANS;

EID: 84899121685     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.055     Document Type: Article

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