Statistical opportunities for comparing stand structural heterogeneity in managed and primeval forests: An example from boreal spruce forest in southern Finland

Silva Fennica

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 315-328

  Kuuluvainen, Timo ^a   Penttinen, Antti ^b   Leinonen, Kari ^a   Nygren, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Boreal forests; K function; Norway spruce; Semivariance; Spatial analysis; Structural variation

Indexed keywords

FOREST STRUCTURE; GEOSTATISTICS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

FINLAND;

PICEA; PINACEAE;

EID: 0030435945     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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