Stand-level diameter distribution yield model for black spruce plantations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 181-192

  Newton, P F ^a   Lei, Y ^b   Zhang, S Y ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optimal site occupancy; Product value; Productivity; Seemingly unrelated regression; Structural yield prediction; Three parameter Weibull PDF

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DENSITY MANAGEMENT; SHAPE PARAMETERS; STAND DENSITY MANAGEMENT DIAGRAM (SDMD); STAND-LEVEL DIAMETER DISTRIBUTION YIELD MODEL;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION; STAND STRUCTURE; YIELD;

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERS; PICEA; PLANTATIONS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 15944415120     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.01.020     Document Type: Article

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