Response of a boreal forest to canopy opening: Assessing vertical and lateral tree growth with multi-temporal lidar data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-121

  Vepakomma, Udayalakshmi ^a   St Onge, Benoit ^a   Kneeshaw, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy dynamics; Discrete lidar; Gap closure; Height growth pattern; Lateral growth; Minimum opening size; Regeneration; Single tree locations

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HARVESTING; LIDAR; OVERSTORY; REGENERATION; SAPLING; SHRUB;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; TREES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 79955546089     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0896.1     Document Type: Article

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