Modelling forest development
In an lUlffianaged woodland, forest development follows a succession of periods of undisturbed natural growth, interrupted by intermediate loss or damage of trees caused by fire or wind or other natural hazards.
Print Book, English, 1999
Springer Science+Business Media, B.V, Dordrecht, 1999
Forestry sciences, Volume 57
vii, 213 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme
9781402002762, 1402002769
1108317631
Erscheint auch als:
1 Introduction.- Types of Forest Models.- Data Requirements.- 2 Projecting Regional Timber Resources.- Empirieal Yield Functions.- Yield Functions based on MAI Estimates.- 3 Modelling Stand Development.- Height.- Basal Area.- Potential Density.- State-Space Models.- Stand Volume and Product Yields.- Thinning Models.- 4 Size Class Models.- Diameter Growth.- Diameter-Height Relations.- Estimating Product Yields.- Modelling Thinnings.- 5 Individual Tree Growth.- Generating Spatial Structures.- Competition Indices.- Spatial Growth Models.- Spatial Thinning Models.- 6 Model Evaluation.- Qualitative Evaluations.- Quantitative Evaluations.- List of Symbols.- Literature.
Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999