Foliar turnover rates in Finland — comparing estimates from needle-cohort and litterfall-biomass methods

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 283-304

  Ťupek, Boris ^a,b   Mäkipää, Raisa ^a   Heikkinen, Juha ^a   Peltoniemi, Mikko ^a   Ukonmaanaho, Liisa ^a   Hokkanen, Tatu ^a   Nöjd, Pekka ^a   Nevalainen, Seppo ^a   Lindgren, Martti ^a   Lehtonen, Aleksi ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84927137109     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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