Monitoring and assessing old-growth forest stands by plot sampling

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-179

  Corona, P ^a   Blasi, C ^b   Chirici, G ^c   Facioni, L ^b   Fattorini, L ^d   Ferrari, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Probabilistic sampling; Species accumulation curve; Structural attributes; Two phase sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951859435     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500903560710     Document Type: Article

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