Is the reverse J-shaped diameter distribution universally applicable in European virgin beech forests?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 75-83

  Westphal, Christina ^a   Tremer, Nils ^b   Oheimb, Goddert Von ^a   Hansen, Jan ^c   Gadow, Klaus Von ^b   Härdtle, Werner ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Forest Res Station of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fagus sylvatica; Negative exponential size distributions; Rotated sigmoid distribution; Steady state forests

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ROTATED SIGMOID DISTRIBUTION; STEADY STATE FOREST;

FORESTRY;

METHODOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA PROCESSING; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FORESTRY; PARAMETERS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 32344445921     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.10.057     Document Type: Article

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