Growth prediction for five tree species in an Italian urban forest

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-176

  Semenzato, Paolo ^a   Cattaneo, Dina ^a   Dainese, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allometry; Predictive equations; Tree growth; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLOMETRY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; DIAMETER; EQUATION; GROWTH; HEIGHT; KNOWLEDGE; LEAF AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANTATION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

ITALY;

ACER; ACER PLATANOIDES; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; LAGERSTROEMIA; LAGERSTROEMIA INDICA; MALVACEAE; PRUNUS; PRUNUS CERASIFERA; TILIA; TILIA VULGARIS;

EID: 79960216437     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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