Risk assessment of wind disturbance in japanese mountain forests

Ecoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-65

  Nakajima, Tohru ^a   Lee, Jung Soo ^b   Kawaguchi, Takaaki ^a   Tatsuhara, Satoshi ^a   Shiraishi, Norihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air flow simulation; Logistic regression model; Mountain forest; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GIS; MODEL TEST; MONTANE FOREST; NATURAL HAZARD; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHRUB; SOFTWARE; WIND VELOCITY;

JAPAN;

CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA;

EID: 76149097884     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/16-1-3179     Document Type: Article

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