Refining volume estimates of down woody debris

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 627-633

  Fraver, Shawn ^a,c   Ringvall, Anna ^b   Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DOWN WOODY DEBRIS (DWD); FOREST ECOSYSTEM;

WOOD;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PRECISION; WOODY DEBRIS;

ECOSYSTEMS; PARAMETERS; WOOD;

EID: 34547874680     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-269     Document Type: Article

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