Local modeling of tree growth by geographically weighted regression

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-244

  Zhang, Lianjun ^a   Shi, Haijin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest growth and yield modeling; Geographic information systems (GIS); Spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity; Tree competition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TREE GROWTH;

FORESTRY;

EID: 2642514130     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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