Potential for the use of GIS and spatial analysis techniques as tools for monitoring changes in forest productivity and nutrition, a New Zealand example

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 187-196

  Payn, Tim W ^a   Hill, Reece B ^b   Höck, Barbara K ^a   Skinner, Malcolm F ^a   Thorn, Alan J ^a   Rijkse, Wim C ^c  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Foliar nutrition; GIS; Soil mapping; Spatial analysis; Sustainable productivity

Indexed keywords

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MECHANICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; GROWTH; NUTRITION; PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033552049     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00041-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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