Line intersect sampling of forest canopy gaps

Forest Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-138

  Battles, John J ^a,b   Dushoff, Jonathan G ^a,c   Fahey, Timothy J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; gap geometry; spruce fir forest; subalpine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029808310     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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