Use of the canopy-scope for assessing canopy openness in plantation forests

Forestry

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 365-371

  Hale, Sophie E ^a   Brown, Nick ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; PLANTATION;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 24944514232     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpi043     Document Type: Article

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