Modeling survival, yield, volume partitioning and their response to thinning for longleaf pine plantations

Forests

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1104-1132

  Gonzalez Benecke, Carlos A ^a   Gezan, Salvador A ^a   Leduc, Daniel J ^b   Martin, Timothy A ^a   Cropper Jr , Wendell P ^a   Samuelson, Lisa J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth and yield modeling; Longleaf pine; Merchantable volume yield; Stand dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION INDEX; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; GROWTH AND YIELD MODELS; LONGLEAF PINE; LONGLEAF PINE MANAGEMENTS; PINUS PALUSTRIS MILL; STAND DYNAMICS; VOLUME YIELD;

ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; MODELING; MORTALITY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; THINNING; YIELD;

FORESTS; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PLANTATIONS; SURVIVAL; THINNING;

UNITED STATES;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 84883304105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f3041104     Document Type: Article

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