Predicting mean aboveground forest biomass and its associated variance

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1400-1407

  Zianis, Dimitris ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allometry; Carbon; Forest biomass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ABOVEGROUND TREE BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; CARBON; DATA SETS; FOREST BIOMASS; M ESTIMATES; TREE DIAMETERS; TREE SIZE; TREE SPECIES;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PREDICTION; TESTING METHOD;

BIOMASS; CARBON; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RENEWABLE RESOURCES; TREES;

FAGUS; FAGUS MOESIACA;

EID: 49949100745     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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