Individual-tree diameter growth models for black spruce and jack pine plantations in northern Ontario

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2140-2148

  Subedi, Nirmal ^a   Sharma, Mahadev ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal area increment; Calibrated response; Mixed effects nonlinear model; Tree growth modeling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; BASAL AREA; BASAL AREA INCREMENT; BLACK SPRUCE; CALIBRATED RESPONSE; CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST; DEVELOPED MODEL; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; DIAMETER GROWTH; FOREST GROWTH AND YIELD; FOREST MANAGERS; JACK PINE; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NON-LINEAR MODEL; ONTARIO; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER; RANDOM EFFECTS; RANDOM SELECTION; SELECTION CRITERIA; STEM ANALYSIS; TREE DIAMETER GROWTH; TREE GROWTH MODELING; TREE SIZE;

ECOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIAMETER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH MODELING; NONLINEARITY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANTATION; SAMPLING; STEM; YIELD RESPONSE;

BASAL AREA; CALIBRATION; DIAMETER; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TREES;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 79955005027     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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