Comparison of experimental designs for clonal forestry using simulated data

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-116

  Gezan, Salvador A ^a   White, Timothy L ^a   Huber, Dudley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variability; Field testing; Heritability; Mixed models; REML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

FIELD TESTING; MIXED MODELS; REML;

FORESTRY;

E I S; FORESTRY;

EID: 33644539910     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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