Modeling non-catastrophic individual-tree mortality for Pinus radiata plantations in northwestern Spain

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1542-1550

  Crecente Campo, Felipe ^a   Marshall, Peter ^b   Rodríguez Soalleiro, Roque ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Logistic regression; Radiata pine; Survival

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COMPETITION INDICES; CUT OFFS; CUT-OFF VALUES; DEAD TREES; DOMINANT HEIGHTS; EXPANSION FACTORS; GROWING PERIODS; LOGISTIC FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MORTALITY MODELS; MORTALITY RATES; PERMANENT PLOTS; PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA PINE; STAND BASAL AREAS; STUDY AREAS; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD SELECTIONS; TREE MORTALITIES; TREE SIZES;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY MODELING; GROWING SEASON; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY; PLANTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

BASAL AREA; COMPETITION; FORESTRY; MORTALITY; PINUS RADIATA; PLANTATIONS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 59749091596     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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