Pot experiments with woody species - A review

Forestry

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 482-491

  Kawaletz, Heike ^a   Mölder, Inga ^b   Annighöfer, Peter ^c   Terwei, André ^c   Zerbe, Stefan ^d   Ammer, Christian ^d  

^a Section Forestry Worldwide   (Germany)

^b Energieagentur Region Göttingen EV ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERB; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT; SUBSTRATE; TREE;

EID: 84906538248     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpu017     Document Type: Review

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