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Evaluation of the quality of standing trees using an Arbotom acoustic stress tomograph

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|Feb 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/forj-2024-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2454-0358 | Journal ISSN: 2454-034X
Language: English
Page range: 65 - 72
Published on: Feb 6, 2025
Published by: National Forest Centre and Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2025 Katarína Michajlová, Miloš Gejdoš, Tomáš Gergeľ, Dominik Gretsch, published by National Forest Centre and Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
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