A stand basal area model for plantation grown New Zealand kauri

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 209, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 367-376

  Chikumbo, Oliver ^a   Steward, Greg A ^a  

^a Ensis   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agathis australis; Dynamical model; Genetic algorithms; Poles; Stability; State space representation; Time invariance; Zeros

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROWTH RATE; NEW ZEALAND; PLANNING;

AGATHIS AUSTRALIS; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION; TIME-INVARIANCE;

VEGETATION;

CONIFEROUS TREE; CROP ROTATION; GROWTH RATE; MODELING; PLANTATION; SILVICULTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

AGATHIS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 35748962948     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.06.035     Document Type: Article

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