An approach for quantifying and correcting sample size-related bias in population estimates of climate-tree growth relationships

Forest Science

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 444-452

  Mérian, Pierre ^a   Bert, Didier ^b   Lebourgeois, François ^a  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Chronology variance; Correlation function; Expressed population signal; Tree sampling bias

Indexed keywords

ABIES ALBA; CHRONOLOGY VARIANCE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CORRECTION FACTORS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; POPULATION ESTIMATE; SAMPLING BIAS;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; SAMPLING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ABIES ALBA; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CORRELATION; FORESTRY; SAMPLING;

EID: 84877314066     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.12-047     Document Type: Article

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