A simple growth and yield model for assessing changes in standing volume across Canada's forests

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-64

  Ung, C H ^a   Bernier, P Y ^a   Guo, X J ^b   Lambert, M C ^a,c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic variables; Merchantable wood volume; Robust regression; Simultaneous regression; Stand age; Yield model

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

CLIMATIC VARIABLES; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; SIMULTANEOUS REGRESSION; STAND AGE; WOOD VOLUME; YIELD MODELING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YIELD RESPONSE;

CLIMATES; FORESTS; GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOOD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 64849090616     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc85057-1     Document Type: Article

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