Modeling the spatial structure of topical forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 110, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 293-314

  Batista, João L f ^a   A Maguire, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest management; Inhomogeneous Poisson process; K function; Neyman Scott process; Point process model; Spatial pattern modeling

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032487594     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00296-5     Document Type: Article

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