Mapping the effect of spatial and temporal variation in climate and soils on Eucalyptus plantation production with 3-PG, a process-based growth model

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1730-1740

  Almeida, Auro C ^a   Siggins, Anders ^b   Batista, Thiago R ^c   Beadle, Chris ^a,d   Fonseca, Sebastião ^c   Loos, Rodolfo ^c  

^a CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and CRC Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Centro de Tecnologia   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatic variation; Eucalyptus production; Forest growth; Forest management; GIS; Process simulation models; Water balance; Water use

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC VARIATION; FOREST GROWTH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PROCESS SIMULATION MODEL; WATER BALANCE; WATER USE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; GROWTH MODELING; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER USE;

EUCALYPTUS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; GIS; METEOROLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ATLANTIC COAST [BRAZIL]; ATLANTIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; BRAZIL;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 77949492451     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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