Growth and survival of eucalyptus grandis - A study based on modelling lifetime distributions

Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 86-96

  Dickel, Meike ^a   Kotze, Heyns ^b   von Gadow, Klaus ^c   Zucchini, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Komatiland Forests Pty Ltd   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal area growth; Planting density; Spacing experiment; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA GROWTH; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DENSITY DEPENDENT; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; PLANTING DENSITY; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; SPACING EXPERIMENTS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREE; WEIBULL THEORY;

BASAL AREA; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTATION; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPACING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; ZULULAND;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS;

EID: 84860496398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19467664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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