Long-term structural change in uneven-aged northern hardwoods

Forest Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 160-165

  Leak, William B ^a  

^a NE Forest Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

balanced stand; Diameter distribution; negative exponential; q distribution; rotated sigmoid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029811996     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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