Estimating cavity tree abundance using nearest neighbor imputation methods for western Oregon and Washington forests

Silva Fennica

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-354

  Temesgen, Hailemariam ^a   Barrett, Tara M ^b   Latta, Greg ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest landscape modeling; Nearest neighbor imputation; Snag frequency; Snag size; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

FOREST LANDSCAPE MODELING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR IMPUTATION; SNAG FREQUENCY; SNAG SIZE; STAND STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CAVITY; CORRELATION; FOREST INVENTORY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SNAG; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HARDWOODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 46249106804     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.241     Document Type: Article

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