Spatial prediction of the onset of spruce budworm defoliation

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 485-494

  Magnussen, Steen ^a   Boudewyn, Paul ^b   Alfaro, Rene ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Choristoneura fumiferana; Logistic regression; Nearest neighbour distance; Picea

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TOPOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES;

FORESTRY;

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; DEFOLIATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMASS; DEFOLIATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPRUCE BUDWORM;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; LEPIDOPTERA; PICEA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 4544268069     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80485-4     Document Type: Article

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