Quantifying the interrelationship between tree stand growth rate and water table level in drained peatland sites within Central Finland

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1775-1783

  Hökkä, Hannu ^a   Repola, Jaakko ^a   Laine, Jukka ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FOOD PROCESSING; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; THEOREM PROVING; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER LEVELS; WATER WELLS; WETLANDS;

BIVARIATE; CENTRAL FINLAND; DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; FOREST SITES; GROWING SEASONS; MEAN FUNCTIONS; PEAT LAND; PEATLAND SITES; PEATLANDS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS L.; PREDICTION MODELING; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIP; RANDOM EFFECTS; REGRESSION METHODS; REGRESSION MODELLING; SCOTS PINES; SOIL SITES; SOIL WATER; STAND GROWTH; STAND MANAGEMENT; STAND VOLUME; VOLUME GROWTH; WATER TABLE DEPTHS; WATER TABLE LEVEL;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; MODELING; ORGANIC SOIL; PEATLAND; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

CORRELATION; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 47649108539     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-028     Document Type: Article

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