A new empirical approach for estimation in k-tree sampling

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 237, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 522-533

  Kleinn, Christoph ^a   Vilčko, František ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias; Ecological surveys; Fixed area plot sampling; Forest inventory; Plot design; Point to tree distance sampling; Precision; Relascope sampling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS; FIXED AREA PLOT SAMPLING; FOREST INVENTORY; PLOT DESIGN; POINT-TO-TREE DISTANCE SAMPLING; RELASCOPE SAMPLING;

FORESTRY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESTRY; SIMULATION; SURVEY; WOODLAND;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 37849185015     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.072     Document Type: Article

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