Predictive open-grown crown width equations for three oak species planted in a southern urban locale

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 58-63

  Martin, Nicholas A ^a   Chappelka, Arthur H ^b   Loewenstein, Edward F ^b   Keever, Gary J ^b   Somers, Greg ^b  

^a Bartlett Tree Experts   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensional relationships; Open grown crown width equations; Predictive crown width equations; Quercus lyrata; Quercus nuttallii; Quercus phellos; Urban trees

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; GROWTH RATE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRUB; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY;

UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS LYRATA; QUERCUS NUTTALLII; QUERCUS PHELLOS; SALIX;

EID: 84858263089     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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