Production ecology of Thuja occidentalis

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1155-1164

  Hofmeyer, Philip V ^a   Seymour, Robert S ^b   Kenefic, Laura S ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCES; CROWN LENGTHS; CROWN SIZE; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH EFFICIENCY; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAGUIRE; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POWER FUNCTIONS; SAPWOOD AREA; SIGMOID MODEL; STEM VOLUME; STEMWOODS; TREE HEIGHT; TREE SPECIES; VOLUME INCREMENT;

DECAY (ORGANIC); GEOLOGIC MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOLIAGE; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EFFECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEM;

DECAY; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 77953220529     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-070     Document Type: Article

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