Identifying growth releases in dendrochronological studies of forest disturbance

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1648-1656

  Fraver, Shawn ^a,b   White, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; BOREAL FORESTS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RELEASES;

FORESTRY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; METHODOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION;

FORESTS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744472930     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-092     Document Type: Article

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