Predicting the branching properties of Sitka spruce grown in Great Britain

New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 246-264

  Achim, Alexis ^a   Gardiner, Barry ^a   Leban, Jean Michel ^b   Daquitaine, Renaud ^c  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Scierie Siat Braun   (France)

Author keywords

Branching; Knots; Picea sitchensis; Wood quality modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY;

BRANCHING PROPERTIES; CLEAR-WOOD PROPERTIES; WOOD QUALITY MODELLING;

SOFTWOODS;

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THINNING; WOOD QUALITY;

FORECASTS; FORESTRY; KNOTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 33845611049     PISSN: 00480134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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