Monitoring of windthrow occurrence and progression in spruce forests in Britain

Forestry

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-97

  Quine, C P ^a   Bell, P D ^a,b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GAP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GIS; MONITORING; WINDTHROW;

UK;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0031838276     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/71.2.87-a     Document Type: Article

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