Predicting tree mortality from growth data: How virtual ecologists can help real ecologists

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 174-187

  Wunder, Jan ^a   Reineking, Björn ^a   Bigler, Christof ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Forest dynamics; Forest inventory; Kullback Leibler distance; Picea abies; Succession models; Tree growth; Tree mortality; Tree rings; Virtual ecology

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 37149032121     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01316.x     Document Type: Article

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