Tree shelters affect shoot and root system growth and structure in Quercus robur during regeneration establishment

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 641-652

  Mariotti, Barbara ^a   Maltoni, Alberto ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^b   Tani, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Morphological attributes; Nursery stocktype; Pedunculate oak; Root system; Shoot system; Tree shelters

Indexed keywords

APICAL DOMINANCE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGENERATION; ROOT SYSTEM; SHELTER; SHOOT; TREE;

ITALY;

QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 84929959848     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-015-0878-y     Document Type: Article

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