Implications of disaggregation in forest growth and yield modeling

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-233

  Ritchie, Martin W ^a   Hann, David W ^b  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregative models; Individual tree models; Stand dynamics; Whole stand models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030997612     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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