Edge-correction needs in estimating indices of spatial forest structure

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1723-1739

  Pommerening, Arne ^a   Stoyan, Dietrich ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EDGE-CORRECTION; PLOT BOUNDARIES; SPATIAL FOREST STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CORRECTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST EDGE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY;

EID: 33748883945     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-060     Document Type: Article

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