biomass: an r package for estimating above-ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1163-1167

  Réjou Méchain, Maxime ^a,b   Tanguy, Ariane ^a   Piponiot, Camille ^c   Chave, Jérôme ^d   Hérault, Bruno ^e  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

allometry; error propagation; forest carbon; height diameter relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016724748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12753     Document Type: Article

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