Compatible taper and volume equations for yellow-poplar in West Virginia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 399-409

  Jiang, Lichun ^a   Brooks, John R ^a   Wang, Jingxin ^a  

^a West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Segmented polynomials; Taper; Volume; Yellow poplar

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATASET; STEM ANALYSIS; VOLUME EQUATIONS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; TREE; VOLUME;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; ERRORS; FORESTRY; LIRIODENDRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEMS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

LIRIODENDRON; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA;

EID: 20544439628     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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