The influences of forest stand management on biotic and abiotic risks of damage     701
Hervé Jactel et al.
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009054
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Tree diameter, height and stocking in even-aged forests     702
Jerome K. Vanclay
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009063
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Genetic similarity of natural populations and plantations of Pinus roxburghii Sarg. in Nepal     703
Archana Gauli, Oliver Gailing, Valdir Marcos Stefenon and Reiner Finkeldey
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009053
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Fall fertilization of Pinus resinosa seedlings: nutrient uptake, cold hardiness, and morphological development     704
M. Anisul Islam, Kent G. Apostol, Douglass F. Jacobs and R. Kasten Dumroese
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009061
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Site preparation and competing vegetation control affect loblolly pine long-term productivity in the southern Piedmont/Upper Coastal Plain of the United States     705
Dehai Zhao, Michael Kane, Bruce E. Borders, Mike Harrison and John W. Rheney
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009055
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Hybridization between Quercus robur and Q. petraea in a mixed oak stand in Denmark     706
Jan Jensen, Anders Larsen, Lene R. Nielsen and Joan Cottrell
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009058
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Effects of a spruce budworm outbreak on element export below the rooting zone: a case study for a balsam fir forest     707
Daniel Houle, Louis Duchesne and Robert Boutin
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009057
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Variation in spring and autumn freezing resistance among and within Spanish wild populations of Castanea sativa     708
Raquel Díaz, Øystein Johnsen and Josefa Fernández-López
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009059
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Does ontogeny modulate irradiance-elicited plasticity of leaf traits in saplings of rain-forest tree species? A test with Dicorynia guianensis and Tachigali melinonii (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae)     709
Sabrina Coste, Jean-Christophe Roggy, Laurianne Garraud, Patrick Heuret, Eric Nicolini and Erwin Dreyer
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009062
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Evaluating the behaviour of vertical structure indices in Scots pine forests     710
Ignacio Barbeito, Isabel Cañellas and Fernando Montes
Published Online: 02 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009056
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Cellulose content as a selection trait in breeding for kraft pulp yield in Eucalyptus urophylla     711
Nguyen D. Kien, Tran H. Quang, Gunnar Jansson, Chris Harwood, David Clapham and Sara von Arnold
Published Online: 15 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009064
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Development of alder carr after the abandonment of wet grasslands during the last 70 years     712
Jan Douda, Alžběta Čejková, Karel Douda and Jana Kochánková
Published Online: 15 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009065
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Genetic variation in wood density and correlations with tree growth in Prosopis africana from Burkina Faso and Niger     713
Carmen Sotelo Montes and John C. Weber
Published Online: 15 October 2009
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009060
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