Conditioning a distance-dependent competition index to indicate the onset of inter-tree competition

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 175, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 17-30

  Radtke, Philip J ^a   Westfall, James A ^a   Burkhart, Harold E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Distance dependent growth model; Loblolly pine; Pinus taeda; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS;

INTER-TREE COMPETITION;

FORESTRY;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GROWTH; SPACING; TREE;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 0037416125     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00118-4     Document Type: Article

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