Predicting the height-diameter pattern of planted Pinus kesiya stands in Zambia and Zimbabwe

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 175, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 355-366

  Eerikäinen, Kalle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Power equation; Random effects; Random parameter model

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PLANTATIONS;

FORESTRY;

DIAMETER; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HEIGHT; PLANTATION; PREDICTION;

ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE;

PINUS KESIYA;

EID: 0037416086     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00138-X     Document Type: Article

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