Accuracy of the MacArthur-Horn method for estimating a foliage profile

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 203-210

  Fukushima, Yukia ^a   Hiura, Tsutom ^a   Tanabe, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deciduous broad leaved trees; Heterogeneity; Spatial scale; Three dimensional structure; TOEF

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032483943     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(98)00103-8     Document Type: Article

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