Calibrating the self-thinning frontier

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-85

  Vanclay, Jerome K ^a   Sands, Peter J ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Even aged monoculture; Maximum basal area; Self thinning; Stand density

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; MEAN DIAMETER; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SELF-THINNING; SIMPLE MODEL; STAND BASAL AREA; STAND DENSITIES; STAND DENSITY INDEX; STEM DIAMETER;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; MONOCULTURE; SELF THINNING; STAND DYNAMICS; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 72149110331     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.045     Document Type: Article

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