Conservation and Monitoring of Tree Genetic Resources in Temperate Forests

Current Forestry Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 119-129

 

^a Phil)   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Conservation genomics; Forest trees; Genetic monitoring; Genomic monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982760097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40725-016-0038-8     Document Type: Review

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