How to kill a tree: empirical mortality models for 18 species and their performance in a dynamic forest model.

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/eap.1668PMID 29266516
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