Estimating the self-thinning boundary line as a density-dependent stochastic biomass frontier

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1477-1483

  Bi, Huiquan ^a   Wan, Guanghua ^c   Turvey, Nigel D ^b  

^a State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^b Greenfield Resource Options   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Pinus radiata; Self thinning rule; Site occupancy; Stochastic biomass frontier; Stochastic frontier function

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOUNDARY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; SELF THINNING;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 0033939748     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1477:ETSTBL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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