Spatial modeling of primary and secondary forest growth in Amazonia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 219, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 149-168

  Neeff, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biomass; Carbon; Growth model; Increment; Primary forest; Secondary forest; State space

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AMAZON; GROWTH MODEL; PRIMARY FOREST; STATE-SPACE;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH MODELING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SECONDARY FOREST;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTRY; INCREMENTS; SECONDARY FOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 28544448628     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.08.037     Document Type: Article

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