Leaf mass per area relationships across light gradients in hybrid spruce crowns

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 522-530

  Temesgen, H ^a   Weiskittel, A R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid spruce; Leaf age; Mixed effect analysis; Stand development stages

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWOODS;

HYBRID SPRUCE; LEAF AGE; MIXED EFFECT ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION (MLR); STAND DEVELOPMENT STAGES;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWOODS;

PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 33744497808     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-006-0068-0     Document Type: Article

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