Linking juvenile white spruce density, dispersion, stocking, and mortality to future yield

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3173-3182

  Feng, Zhili ^a   Stadt, Kenneth J ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

LINKING DENSITY; MEAN MORTALITY LOSS; REGENERATION STANDARDS; STOCKING INFORMATION;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; MORTALITY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; STAND DYNAMICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; YIELD RESPONSE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; MORTALITY; STOCKING DENSITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 34249880496     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-192     Document Type: Article

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