Quantifying height growth and monthly growing degree days relationship of plantation Taiwan spruce

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2270-2276

  Guan, Biing T ^a   Chung, Chih Hsin ^b   Lin, Shu Tzong ^c   Shen, Chieh Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Nonlinear mixed effects regression; Picea morrisonicola; Thermal time

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS; GROWING DEGREE DAYS; GROWTH ANALYSIS; GROWTH STAGES; HEIGHT GROWTHS; HIGH ALTITUDES; NONLINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS REGRESSION; ON CURRENTS; PICEA MORRISONICOLA; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL TIME;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

PICEA; PICEA MORRISONICOLA;

EID: 64149122480     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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