Site quality curves for birch stands in North-Western Spain

Silva Fennica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 631-644

  Diéguez Aranda, Ulises ^a   Grandas Arias, José Antonio ^a   Álvarez González, Juan Gabriel ^a   Von Gadow, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Base age invariant dynamic equation; Betula pubescens; Galicia; Generalized algebraic difference approach; Hossfeld model; Site quality

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BASE-AGE INVARIANT DYNAMIC EQUATION; GENERALIZED ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENCE APPROACH; HOSSFELD MODEL;

FORESTRY;

AUTOCORRELATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ERROR CORRECTION; GROWTH MODELING; HEIGHT; SITE INDEX;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BETULA PUBESCENS;

EID: 33845869805     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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