Improving estimates of biomass change in buttressed trees using tree taper models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 573-582

  Cushman, K C ^a   Muller Landau, Helene C ^a   Condit, Richard S ^a   Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Barro Colorado Island; Forest dynamics; Permanent sample plot; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902082372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12187     Document Type: Article

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