Modelling vegetation management treatments with the Tree and Stand Simulator

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-59

  Harper, George J ^a   Polsson, Ken ^a   Goudie, Jim ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth and yield modelling; Picea engelmannii; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Vegetation management

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

CULMINATION MEAN ANNUAL INCREMENT (CMAI); VEGETATION MANAGEMENT; YIELD MODELING;

DEFORESTATION;

CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLYPHOSATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION;

DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PLANTS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 41149136156     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc84053-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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