Variable stocking version of Plonski's yield tables formulated

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-184

  Payandeh, Bijan ^a   Wang, Yonghe ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal area index; sigmoidal growth curve; variable stocking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029786405     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc72181-2     Document Type: Article

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