Landscape-level variability in the age underestimation of understory black spruce in the northern boreal forest of Quebec

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 633-642

  Parisien, Marc André ^a   Sirois, Luc ^b   Parent, Sylvain ^c  

^a NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE UNDERESTIMATION; FIRE-DOMINATED STANDS; GROUND-LEVEL AGE; LANDSCAPE-LEVEL VARIABILITY;

FORESTRY;

AGE DETERMINATION; BOREAL FOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY;

AGING; ERRORS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PICEA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAPLINGS; VARIABILITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 22144470171     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x04-181     Document Type: Article

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