Autocorrelated growth of tropical forest trees: Unraveling patterns and quantifying consequences

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 237, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 179-190

  Brienen, Roel J W ^a,b   Zuidema, Pieter A ^a,b   During, Heinjo J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Programa Manejo de Bosques de la Amazonia Boliviana PROMAB   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Bootstrapped simulations; Size variability; Size dependent growth; Temporal autocorrelation; Tree age

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH KINETICS;

BOOTSTRAPPED SIMULATIONS; SIZE DEPENDENT GROWTH; SIZE VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL AUTOCORRELATION; TREE AGE;

FORESTRY;

AUTOCORRELATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; SIMULATION; TREE DIMENSIONS;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751534772     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.042     Document Type: Article

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