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Small does not mean young: Age estimation of severely browsed trees in anthropogenic Mediterranean landscapes

Fazan, Laurence ; Stoffel, Markus ; Frey, David J. ; Pirintsos, Stergios ; Kozlowski, Gregor

In: Biological Conservation, 2012, vol. 153, p. 97-100

The knowledge of the age of individual trees and of population age structure is of great importance for conservation purposes. In Mediterranean areas, however, trees are rarely used for dendroecological studies as ring growth is strongly perturbed by browsing and other disturbances. This study focused on the Tertiary relict tree species Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) endemic to the mountains of...