Development of a basal area growth system for maritime pine in northwestern Spain using the generalized algebraic difference approach

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1461-1474

  Barrio Anta, Marcos ^a   Castedo Dorado, Fernando ^b   Diéguez Aranda, Ulises ^a   Álvarez González, Juan G ^a   Parresol, Bernard R ^c   Rodríguez Soalleiro, Roque ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENCE APPROACH; BASAL AREA GROWTH; CROSS VALIDATION; GRAPHICAL METHODS;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; EQUATION; GROWTH FORM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

BASAL AREA; GROWTH; PINUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 33748563185     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-028     Document Type: Article

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