Design-unbiased estimation for point-to-tree distance sampling

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1407-1414

  Kleinn, Christoph ^a   Vilčko, František ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INCLUSIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

INCLUSION ZONE; PROBABILISTIC SAMPLING; STAND ATTRIBUTES; STEM DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

SAMPLING; STAND STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEM; TREE;

FORESTRY; SAMPLING; STEMS;

EID: 33748564659     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-038     Document Type: Article

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