Using segmented regression to model the density-size relationship in direct-seeded slash pine stands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 948-952

  Cao, Quang V ^a   Dean, Thomas J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality rate; Pinus elliottii; Self thinning; Size density trajectory

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MORTALITY RATE; SIZE-DENSITY TRAJECTORY;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORTALITY; PINUS ELLIOTTII; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS ELLIOTTII; PINUS ELLIOTTII VAR. ELLIOTTII; PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 38949172415     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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