Construction of site index equations for even aged stands of Tectona grandis (teak) from permanent plot data in India

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 14-22

  Upadhyay, Anoop ^a   Eid, Tron ^a   Sankhayan, Prem L ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Difference equation method; Guide curve method; India; Site index; Tectona grandis

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; TIMBER;

GROWTH FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHIC FORMULATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS (RMSE); SITE INDEX EQUATIONS;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAND DYNAMICS;

AGE; ERRORS; FORESTS; PARAMETERS; TECTONA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 20444405008     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.02.058     Document Type: Article

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