Efficiency of alternative forest inventory methods in partially harvested stands

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 261-272

  Rice, Ben ^a   Weiskittel, Aaron R ^a   Wagner, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Big baf; Horizontal line sampling; Mensuration; Partial harvesting; Variable radius sampling

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; STAND DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901696345     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-013-0756-4     Document Type: Article

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