The balance of planting and mortality in a street tree population

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 387-404

  Roman, Lara A ^a,b   Battles, John J ^a   McBride, Joe R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Monitoring; Mortality curve; Oakland; Survivorship; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901253742     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-013-0320-5     Document Type: Article

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