Neighborhood uniformity increases growth of individual Eucalyptus trees

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 289, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-97

  Luu, Trung Canh ^a   Binkley, Dan ^a   Stape, José Luiz ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive forest management; Neighborhood competition index; Resource use efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION INDEX; COMPLEX INTERACTION; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; INTENSIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NEIGHBORHOOD MODEL; POTENTIAL GROWTH; RESOURCE USE; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; STAND GROWTH; STAND STRUCTURES; TREE GROWTH; TREE SIZE;

ECOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

CLONAL ORGANISM; EVERGREEN FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RESOURCE USE; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE;

COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; SILVICULTURE;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS;

EID: 84869869305     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.033     Document Type: Article

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