Comments: No Relationship Between Fir Decline and Air Pollution in the Bavarian Forest

Author: Kandler Otto  

Publisher: Society of American Foresters

ISSN: 0015-749X

Source: Forest Science, Vol.38, Iss.4, 1992-11, pp. : 866-869

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Abstract

The alleged relationship between fir decline and air pollution in the Bavarian Forest, claimed by Visser and Molenaar (1992), is due to the use of an inadequate measure of the degree of air pollution and a biased set of tree ring data. For Sci. 38(4):866-869.