Modeling wood fiber attributes using forest inventory and environmental data for Newfoundland's boreal forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 313, Issue , 2014, Pages 307-318

  Lessard, E ^a   Fournier, R A ^a   Luther, J E ^b   Mazerolle, M J ^c   van Lier, O R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Environmental drivers; Landscape mapping; Multimodel inference; Spatial analysis; Wood fiber attributes

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; MULTI-MODEL INFERENCE; NEWFOUNDLAND , CANADA; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WOOD FIBER;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FIBERS;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DENSITY; ELASTICITY; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWING SEASON; LANDSCAPE; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THINNING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; WOOD FIBERS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84891735747     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.030     Document Type: Article

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