Crown condition assessment at the CONECOFOR Permanent monitoring plots

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 61, Issue 1 SUPP, 2003, Pages 12-18

  Bussotti, Filippo ^b   Cozzi, Alberto ^a   Ferretti, Marco ^a   Cenni, Enrico ^a   Bettini, Davide ^a   Nibbi, Renzo ^a  

^a Linnaea ambiente srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex indices; Crown assessment; Outliers; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA QUALITY; FOREST; POLLUTION MONITORING;

EID: 0037281918     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2002.s1.12     Document Type: Article

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