Analysing structural diversity in two temperate forests in northeastern China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 316, Issue , 2014, Pages 139-147

  Ni, Ruiqiang ^a   Baiketuerhan, Yeerjiang ^b   Zhang, Chunyu ^a   Zhao, Xiuhai ^a   Gadow, Klaus von ^c,d  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bivariate mixtures; Nearest neighbour statistics; Second order statistics; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893941347     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.012     Document Type: Article

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