Portability of stand-level empirical windthrow risk models

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 216, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 134-148

  Lanquaye Opoku, Naa ^a   Mitchell, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blowdown; Empirical models; Risk assessment; Wind; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BLOWDOWN; EMPIRICAL MODELS; FOREST COVER; WINDTHROW;

WIND EFFECTS;

MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILVICULTURE; TIMBER HARVESTING; WINDTHROW;

FORESTS; GIS; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24944536701     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.05.032     Document Type: Article

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