Height-diameter models for tropical forests on Hainan Island in southern China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 110, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 315-327

  Fang, Zixing ^a   Bailey, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory; Nonlinear models; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; TREE;

CHINA;

EID: 0032487470     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00297-7     Document Type: Article

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