A tree-centered approach to assess impacts of extreme climatic events on forests

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue JULY2016, 2016, Pages

  Sass Klaassen, Ute ^a   Fonti, Patrick ^b   Cherubini, Paolo ^b   Gričar, Jožica ^c   Robert, Elisabeth M R ^d,e,f   Steppe, Kathy ^g   Bräuning, Achim ^h  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d CREAF   (Spain)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^f ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Future forests; Intra annual resolution; Long term monitoring; Mechanistic understanding; Resilience; Structure function relationships; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979662896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01069     Document Type: Article

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