Calibration and testing of a generalized process-based model for use in Portuguese eucalyptus plantations

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3209-3221

  Fontes, Luis ^a   Landsberg, Joe ^b   Tomé, José ^a   Tomé, Margarida ^a   Pacheco, Carlos A ^a   Soares, Paula ^a   Araujo, Clara ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Celbi   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; CARBOHYDRATES; DECISION MAKING; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS (PSP); PROCESS BASED MODEL;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANTATION FORESTRY; TIMBER;

BIOMETRICS; CARBOHYDRATES; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 34249874021     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-186     Document Type: Article

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