Modeling spatial variation in tree diameter-height relationships

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 189, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 317-329

  Zhang, Lianjun ^a   Bi, Huiquan ^b,c   Cheng, Pengfei ^a   Davis, Craig J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest modeling; Spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ECOLOGY;

DIAMETER; HEIGHT; MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

EID: 1242300158     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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