Estimating the number of tree species in a forest community using survey data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 293-303

  Schreuder, H T ^a   Williams, M S ^a   Reich, R M ^a  

^a US Forest Service Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING; SURVEYS;

FOREST COMMUNITY; TREE;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES INVENTORY; SURVEYING; TREE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033152874     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005988402245     Document Type: Article

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