Sampling measures of tree diversity

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1985-1996

  Motz, K ^a   Sterba, H ^a   Pommerening, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angle count sampling; Biodiversity inventory; Circular sample plots; Forest resource inventory; Sampling simulation; Tree diversity indices

Indexed keywords

ANGLE COUNT SAMPLING; BIODIVERSITY INVENTORIES; CIRCULAR SAMPLE PLOTS; FOREST RESOURCE INVENTORY; SAMPLING SIMULATION; TREE DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES;

SAMPLING;

BASAL AREA; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY MODELING; PRECISION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 77957925060     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.08.046     Document Type: Article

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