Are self-thinning constraints needed in a tree-specific mortality model?

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 848-858

  Monserud, Robert A ^a   Ledermann, Thomas ^b   Sterba, Hubert ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Bundesamt Forschungszentrum F Wald   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Maximum size density relationship; Mortality model; PROGNAUS; Reineke; Self thinning; Stand simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS;

MORTALITY RATES; POWER LAW; STAND DENSITY INDEX (SDI); TREE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY MODEL;

FORESTRY;

AUSTRIA; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORTALITY; PICEA ABIES; SIMULATION; THINNING; TREES;

ABIES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 13944254454     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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