Development and testing of regeneration imputation models for forests in Minnesota

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 94, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 129-140

  Ek, Alan R ^a   Robinson, Andrew P ^a   Radtke, Philip J ^a   Walters, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Harvesting; Simulation; Species diversity; Stratification; Tabular models

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY; HARVESTING; MODELLING; TABULAR MODEL;

USA, MINNESOTA;

EID: 0030613057     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03970-9     Document Type: Article

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