Diameter and height increment and mortality functions for loblolly pine trees in thinned and unthinned plantations

Although there remains some controversy as to the benefits of individual tree growth and yield prediction models over stand-level models, individual tree models still have wide acceptance. A generalized thinning response variable which can account for the intensity of thinning, as well as the age of...

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Main Author: Smith, Michael C.
Other Authors: Forestry
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41788
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03242009-040942/