Yield prediction for mixed species stands in boreal Ontario

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-52

  Penner, Margaret ^a  

^a Forest Analysis Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

FVS; Mixedwood growth; Yield tables

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; GROWTH KINETICS; HARVESTING; VEGETATION; WOOD;

BOREAL FORESTS; FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATOR (FVS); MIXEDWOOD GROWTH;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HARVESTING; HISTORY; MIXED FOREST; YIELD RESPONSE;

CULTIVATION; GROWTH; HARVESTING; PLANTS; TREES; WOOD; YIELD TABLES;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ABIES; PICEA; POPULUS;

EID: 41149170150     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc84046-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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