Quantifying stand structural complexity and its relationship with forest management, tree species diversity and microclimate

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 242, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-9

  Ehbrecht, Martin ^a   Schall, Peter ^a   Ammer, Christian ^a   Seidel, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fractal dimension; Single scan; Stand structure; TLS

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MICROCLIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPACING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

GERMANY;

EID: 85018275396     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.04.012     Document Type: Article

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