Evaluating structural indices by reversing forest structural analysis

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-277

  Pommerening, Arne ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Evaluation; Marginal and simultaneous distributions; Neighbourhood based indices; Simulating spatial stand; Spatial stand structure; Structural indices

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; WOOD;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MARGINAL AND SIMULTANEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; NEIGHBOURHOOD-BASED INDICES; SIMULATING SPATIAL STAND; SPATIAL STAND STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL INDICES;

FORESTRY;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INDEX METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; EVALUATION; FORESTRY; WOOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644914995     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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