Biomass and stem volume equations for tree species in Europe

Silva Fennica Monographs

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-63

  Zianis, Dimitris ^b   Muukkonen, Petteri ^a   Mäkipää, Raisa ^a   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TEI Kavalas ^*  (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Allometry; Belowground biomass; Biomass function; dbh; Tree diameter; Tree height

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751534684     PISSN: 14577356     EISSN: 14577356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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