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The Selection of Plant Materials for Street Trees, Park Trees and Urban Woodland

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  1. The Norwegian Crop Research Institute, Saerheim Research Centre, Norway

    Arne Sæbø

  2. Institute of Genetics and Dendrology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Želimir Borzan

  3. Research Centre Sophia-Antipolis, National Institute for Agricultural Research, France

    Catherine Ducatillion

  4. Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Athanassios Hatzistathis

  5. Department of Landscape Planning Ultuna, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

    Thomas Lagerström

  6. Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture, Slovak Agriculture University, Slovakia

    Jan Supuka

  7. Technological Institute of Agricultural Development, Municipality of Madrid, Spain

    Jose Luis García-Valdecantos

  8. Center of Applied Ecology, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Francisco Rego (Professor Baeta Neves)

  9. Institute for Forestry and Game Management, Belgium

    Jos Van Slycken

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Sæbø, A. et al. (2005). The Selection of Plant Materials for Street Trees, Park Trees and Urban Woodland. In: Konijnendijk, C., Nilsson, K., Randrup, T., Schipperijn, J. (eds) Urban Forests and Trees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27684-X_11

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