Identifying the disturbance history over a large area of larch-spruce mountain forest in Central Europe

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 361, Issue , 2016, Pages 318-327

  Holeksa, Jan ^a   Zielonka, Tomasz ^b   Zywiec, Magdalena ^c   Fleischer, Peter ^d  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d Tatra National Park   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Compression wood; Dendrochronology; Forest disturbance regime; Growth release; Larix decidua; Picea abies

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); WOOD;

COMPRESSION WOODS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST DISTURBANCES; GROWTH RELEASE; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONTANE FOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STAND DYNAMICS; TREE RING;

COMPRESSION WOOD; FORESTS; GROWTH; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84947983564     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.031     Document Type: Article

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