Patterns of leaf area and growing space efficiency in young even-aged and multiaged coast redwood stands

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 617-626

  Berrill, John Pascal ^a   O'Hara, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GROWING SPACE EFFICIENCY (GSE) MODEL; JACKSON DEMONSTRATION STATE FOREST; LEAF AREA ESTIMATES (LAI);

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

BASAL AREA; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MIXED FOREST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERSTORY; STAND STRUCTURE;

BASAL AREA; DATA PROCESSING; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; SEQUOIA;

CALIFORNIA; JACKSON STATE FOREST; MENDOCINO COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS;

EID: 34547888758     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-271     Document Type: Article

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