Connecting a process-based forest growth model to stand-level economic optimization

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2060-2073

  Hyytiäinen, Kari ^a   Hari, Pertti ^b   Kokkila, Tero ^b   Mäkelä, Annikki ^b   Tahvonen, Olli ^a   Taipale, Juhani ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECONOMICS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; TIMBER;

CROWN MORPHOLOGY; FOREST STAND MANAGEMENT; STEM TAPER;

FORESTRY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SILVICULTURE;

ANATOMY; BIOMASS; ECONOMICS; FORESTS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 11244324816     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-056     Document Type: Article

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