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Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment: what are future monitoring and research needs?     400
Matthias Dobbertin
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009026
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Modelling ozone fluxes to forests for risk assessment: status and prospects     401
Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Lisa Emberson and David Simpson
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009024
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Effects of atmospheric and climate change at the timberline of the Central European Alps     402
Gerhard Wieser, Rainer Matyssek, Roland Luzian, Peter Zwerger, Peter Pindur, Walter Oberhuber and Andreas Gruber
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009023
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Quality assurance (QA) in international forest monitoring programmes: activity, problems and perspectives from East Asia and Europe     403
Marco Ferretti, Nils König, Pasi Rautio and Hiroyuki Sase
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009025
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Genetic parameters for earlywood and latewood densities and development with increasing age in Scots pine     404
Anders Fries and Tore Ericsson
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009019
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Cryopreservation of dormant orthodox seeds of forest trees: mazzard cherry (Prunus avium L.)     405
Paweł Chmielarz
Published Online: 04 June 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009020
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High resolution temporal variation in wood properties in irrigated and non-irrigated Eucalyptus globulus     406
David M. Drew, Geoffrey M. Downes, Anthony P. O'Grady, Jennifer Read and Dale Worledge
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009017
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Freezing injury in primary and secondary needles of Mediterranean pine species of contrasting ecological niches     407
Jose Climent, Filipe Costa e Silva, Ma Regina Chambel, Marta Pardos and Ma Helena Almeida
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009016
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Diversity of water use efficiency among Quercus robur genotypes: contribution of related leaf traits     408
Magali Roussel, Didier Le Thiec, Pierre Montpied, Nathalie Ningre, Jean-Marc Guehl and Oliver Brendel
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009010
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Epicormic sprout development in pruned coast redwood: pruning severity, genotype, and sprouting characteristics     409
Kevin L. O'Hara and John-Pascal Berrill
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009015
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The rise and fall of the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) in the “Siro Negri” Forest Reserve (Lombardy, Italy): lessons learned and future uncertainties     410
Renzo Motta, Paola Nola and Roberta Berretti
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009012
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Tree mortality in a mixed deciduous forest in Northwestern Russia over 22 years     411
Igor Drobyshev, Alexander Dobrovolsky and Vasiliy Neshataev
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009018
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Temporal trends in the foliar nutritional status of the French, Walloon and Luxembourg broad-leaved plots of forest monitoring     412
Mathieu Jonard, Frédéric André, Etienne Dambrine, Quentin Ponette and Erwin Ulrich
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009014
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Genetic variation for carbon isotope composition in Juglans regia L.: relationships with growth, phenology and climate of origin     413
Neus Aletà, Antoni Vilanova, Raquel Díaz and Jordi Voltas
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009021
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Ranking larch genotypes with the Rigidimeter: relationships between modulus of elasticity of standing trees and of sawn timber     414
Luc E. Pâques and Philippe Rozenberg
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009011
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Combining forest structure data and fuel modelling to classify fire hazard in Portugal     415
Paulo M. Fernandes
Published Online: 06 May 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009013
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