Projection variance partitioning of a conceptual forest growth model with orthogonal polynomials

Forest Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 474-486

  Gertner, George ^a,b   Parysow, Pablo ^a,b   Guan, Biing ^c  

^a Department of Forest Biometrics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic growth model; error budget; pipe model; uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 0030443251     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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