Recent changes to the northeast variant of the forest vegetation simulator and some basic strategies for improving model outputs

Northern Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-34

  Ray, David G ^a,b   Saunders, Mike R ^c   Seymour, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; FVS; Growth model; TWIGS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; VEGETATION;

DATA INPUT; FIELD NOTES; FOREST MANAGERS; FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATOR; GROWTH MODELING; MODEL OUTPUTS; TWIGS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 64249162819     PISSN: 07426348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/njaf/26.1.31     Document Type: Article

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