A quantitative index of forest structural sustainability

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1618-1634

  Cale, Jonathan A ^a   Teale, Stephen A ^a   West, Justin L ^a   Zhang, Lianjun I ^a   Castello, David R ^b   Devlin, Peter ^b   Castello, John D ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline mortality; Climate change; Forest health; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BASELINE MORTALITY; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FOREST HEALTH; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; QUANTITATIVE SYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST INVENTORY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABILITY;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT;

ABIES BALSAMEA; ACER RUBRUM; CALOCEDRUS DECURRENS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; NOTHOFAGUS SOLANDRI; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS LAMBERTIANA; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 84904052477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5071618     Document Type: Article

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