A framework to categorize forest structure concepts

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 872-882

  Nadkarni, Nalini M ^a   McIntosh, Anne C S ^b   Cushing, Judith B ^a  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Classification; Forest canopy; Forest structure; Perception; Structure function relationships; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CATEGORIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DESCRIPTORS; ECOINFORMATICS; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL CATEGORIZATION; IN-BETWEEN; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; PERCEPTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS; STRUCTURE/FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTHESIS; TWO TYPES;

COMPLEXATION;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 48849114357     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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