Models for the regeneration establishment and the development of established seedlings in uneven-aged, Norway spruce dominated forest stands of southern Finland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 242, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 444-461

  Eerikäinen, Kalle ^a   Miina, Jari ^a   Valkonen, Sauli ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diameter at breast height; Height increment; Mixed linear model; Mixed log linear model; Mixed logistic model; Random effects; Recruitment; Survival; Truncated Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEED; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BREAST HEIGHTS; HEIGHT INCREMENT; MIXED LINEAR MODEL; MIXED LOG LINEAR MODEL; MIXED LOGISTIC MODEL; RANDOM EFFECTS; TRUNCATED WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

SOFTWOODS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIAMETER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH MODELING; HEIGHT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; STAND STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PICEA; RECRUITMENT; SEEDS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 34047171248     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.078     Document Type: Article

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