Effects of adjacent stand characteristics and boundary distance on density and volume of mapped land units in the boreal forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-106

  Lowell, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary analysis; Forest maps; Forest stand adjacency; Spatial analysis; Spatial uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; DENSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; STRATIFICATION; VOLUME;

CANADA;

EID: 0032873863     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009834603822     Document Type: Article

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