Development of a system to predict the evolution of individual tree mature cork caliber over time

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1303-1314

  Almeida, Alice M ^a   Tomé, José ^a   Tomé, Margarida ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cork caliber; Cork growth index; Cork growth models; Cork thickness of complete rings

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENCE APPROACHES; BASE MODELS; CORK CALIBER; CORK GROWTH INDEX; CORK THICKNESS; FREE PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENCE APPROACH; GROWTH MODELS; GROWTH PROCESS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LEAST-SQUARES APPROACH; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOG-LOGISTIC FUNCTIONS; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SUBMODELS; TWO STAGE;

ALGEBRA; FORESTRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FORECASTING;

LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TREE RING;

CORK; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77956444856     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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