Modelling the change in aspen species composition in boreal mixedwoods

Forestry

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 575-586

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

^a Forest Management Branch   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BOREAL FOREST; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EQUATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTRY MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; SITE INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 57349178534     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpn011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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