Growth efficiency-survivorship relationship and effects of spacing on relative diameter growth rate of Japanese cedars

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1713-1723

  Guan, Biing T ^a   Lin, Shu Tzong ^b   Lin, Ya Hui ^a   Wu, Yi Sui ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competition; Cryptomeria japonica; Growth efficiency; Relative growth rate

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RELATIVE GROWTH RATE (RGR);

GROWTH KINETICS;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DIAMETER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN FOREST; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF THINNING; SPACING; SURROGATE METHOD; SURVIVORSHIP;

GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES;

CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA;

EID: 39749203561     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.028     Document Type: Article

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