Describing maritime pine diameter distributions with Johnson's SB distribution using a new all-parameter recovery approach

Forest Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 367-373

  Fonseca, Teresa Fidalgo ^a   Marques, Carlos Pacheco ^a   Parresol, Bernard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b US Forest Service   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Moments; Pinus pinaster; Stand horizontal structure

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; DIAMETER CLASS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FOREST GROWTH AND YIELD; GROWTH AND YIELD MODELS; MARITIME PINES; MEAN DIAMETER; MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETER RECOVERY; PINUS PINASTER; PORTUGAL; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIZE CLASS; STAND HORIZONTAL STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WEIBULL;

FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMORPHISM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RECOVERY;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DENSITY; FORESTRY; PINUS PINASTER; PROBABILITY; RECOVERY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 70349615403     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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