Analysis of regional variation of height growth and slenderness in populations of six urban tree species using a quantile regression approach

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 336-343

  Rust, Steffen ^a  

^a Hildesheim Holzminden Göttingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Height diameter model; Inventory data; Slenderness; Urban trees

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; URBAN AREA;

GERMANY;

EID: 84900520931     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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