Wind speed and crown class influence the height-diameter relationship of lodgepole pine: Nonlinear mixed effects modeling

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 570-577

  Meng, Shawn X ^a   Huang, Shongming ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^b   Nunifu, Thompson ^a   Yang, Yuqing ^a  

^a Forest Management Branch   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Crown class; Height diameter relationship; Mixed effects model; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; PACKET NETWORKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

(SPM) CLASSES; ACCURATE PREDICTION; AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERION (AIC); BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION (BIC); CLASS LEVEL; CLASS-BASED; DEVELOPED MODEL; ELSEVIER (CO); HEIGHT-DIAMETER (H-D) MODELS; INDIVIDUAL TREES; LATIFOLIA; MECHANICAL PERTURBATIONS; MIXED EFFECTS; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MIXED MODEL (MM); NONLINEAR MIXED EFFECTS; PREDICTION ERRORS; RESIDUAL VARIANCE (RV); SCHWARZ; WIND SPEED (WS);

WIND EFFECTS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIAMETER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HEIGHT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERTURBATION; PREDICTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR FLOW; CROWN CLASSES; FORECASTS; PINUS CONTORTA; TREES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 46849086397     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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