Estimating wood volume from canopy area in deciduous woodlands of Zimbabwe

Southern Forests

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 237-244

  Gara, Tawanda W ^a   Murwira, Amon ^a   Chivhenge, Emmerson ^a   Dube, Timothy ^b   Bangira, Tsitsi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c SAEON Egagasini Node ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

allometric equation; canopy area; deciduous woodlands; wood volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926046569     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/20702620.2014.965981     Document Type: Article

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