Growth response functions improved by accounting for nonclimatic site effects

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2724-2730

  O'Neill, Gregory A ^a   Nigh, Gordon ^a   Wang, Tongli ^b   Ott, Peter K ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH KINETICS;

GROWTH RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; HEIGHT PREDICTIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RESPONSE; PREDICTION; PROVENANCE;

CLIMATES; ERRORS; FORESTRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 38849117146     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-100     Document Type: Article

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