Dynamic response of the scenic beauty value of different forests to various thinning intensities in central eastern China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7413-7429

  Deng, Songqiu ^a,b   Yin, Na ^a,b   Guan, Qingwei ^b   Katoh, Masato ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Impact factor; Landscape value; Neural network model; Scenic forest; Thinning management

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

AVERAGE DIAMETER; IMPACT FACTOR; LANDSCAPE VALUES; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; SCENIC FOREST; THINNING INTENSITY;

FORESTRY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHOTOGRAPH; THINNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANOPY THINNING; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HEAVY THINNING; LANDSCAPE; LIGHT THINNING; MODERATE THINNING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTHETICS; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

BEAUTY; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; TREES;

EID: 84909594710     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3937-9     Document Type: Article

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