Use of individual tree mixed models to account for mortality and selective thinning when estimating base population genetic parameters

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 246-253

  Wei, Xianming ^a   Borralho, Nuno M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Eucalyptus urophylla; Heritability; REML; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CULTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EUCALYPTUS UROPHYLLA; HERITABILITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE RESTRICTED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS; SELECTIVE THINNING; TREE MIXED MODELS;

FORESTRY;

EUCALYPTUS UROPHYLLA;

EID: 0032071294     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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