Mapping and imputing potential productivity of Pacific Northwest forests using climate variables

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1197-1207

  Latta, Gregory ^a   Temesgen, Hailemariam ^a   Barrett, Tara M ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIABLES; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; FOREST GROWTH; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; IMPUTATION METHODS; MOISTURE INDEX; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY DATA; REFERENCE DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; THIN PLATE SPLINE; WASHINGTON;

FORESTRY; PATIENT MONITORING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOFUEL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST PRODUCT; MAPPING METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT;

CLIMATES; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 67649354477     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-046     Document Type: Article

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