Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2478-2485

  Getzin, Stephan ^a   Wiegand, Kerstin ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^b   Gougeon, François A ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Crown area; Douglas fir; Mark correlation function; Remote sensing; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CORRELATION METHODS; GROWTH KINETICS; VEGETATION;

MARK CORRELATION FUNCTIONS (MCF); SPATIAL SCALE; STAND LEVELS;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORRELATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MORTALITY RISK; REMOTE SENSING; STAND DYNAMICS; THINNING;

COMPETITION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTS; PSEUDOTSUGA; REMOTE SENSING;

AVES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 41949102050     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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