Modelling spatial dependence in an irregular natural forest

Silva Fennica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-48

  Fox, Julian C ^a   Bi, Huiquan ^b   Ades, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlogram; Eucalypt; Growth modelling; Moran's I; Moving average autoregression; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FUNGUS PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELOGRAM; GROWTH MODELING; MOVING AVERAGE AUTOREGRESSION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

FORESTRY;

AUTOCORRELATION; DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; GROWTH MODELING; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WILDFIRE;

FORESTRY; FUNGI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESISTANCE;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS PILULARIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 41549121046     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.262     Document Type: Article

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