Analysing the effect of stand density and site conditions on structure and growth of oak species using Nelder trials along an environmental gradient: Experimental design, evaluation methods, and results

Forest Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Uhl, Enno ^a   Biber, Peter ^a   Ulbricht, Matthias ^a   Heym, Michael ^a   Horváth, Tamás ^b   Lakatos, Ferenc ^b   Gál, Janós ^b   Steinacker, Leonhard ^a   Tonon, Giustino ^c   Ventura, Maurizio ^c   Pretzsch, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Long term trial; Nelder; Quercus; Single tree analyses; Space use efficiency; Stress gradient hypothesis; Tree allometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027391240     PISSN: 20956355     EISSN: 21975620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-015-0041-8     Document Type: Article

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