Compatible diameter and height increment models for lodgepole pine, trembling aspen, and white spruce

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-192

  Nunifu, Thompson K ^a  

^a Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETERS; AVERAGE HEIGHTS; DIAMETER GROWTHS; DIAMETER INCREMENTS; GROWTH MODELS; HEIGHT GROWTHS; LATIFOLIA; LODGEPOLE PINES; MIXED WOODS; MIXEDWOOD STANDS; PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; PURE STANDS; SHORT-TERM PREDICTIONS; SITE PRODUCTIVITIES; STAND DYNAMICS; STEM DENSITIES; TREE DIAMETERS; TREE GROWTHS; TREE HEIGHTS; TREMBLING ASPENS; VALIDATION TESTS; VOLUME GROWTHS; WHITE SPRUCES;

DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIAMETER; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT; MIXED FOREST; MODEL VALIDATION; STAND DYNAMICS;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GROWTH; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 64849114738     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-168     Document Type: Article

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