Modeling percent stocking changes for lodgepole pine stands in Alberta

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1042-1052

  Yang, Yuqing ^a   Huang, Shongming ^a  

^a Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL CHECKING; REFORESTATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DIFFERENCE EQUATION; LOGISTIC FUNCTIONS; PERCENT STOCKING; SAMPLE PLOT DATA;

WOOD;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; REFORESTATION; SITE INDEX; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

ALBERTA; ERRORS; PINUS CONTORTA; REFORESTATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 44449157145     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-208     Document Type: Article

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