‘Relationships between relationships’in forest stands:intercepts and exponents analyses

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    摘要 Relationshipsbetweendiameteratbreastheight(dbh)versusstanddensity,andtreeheightversusdbh(heightcurve)wereexploredwiththeaimtofindiftherewerefunctionallinksbetweencorrespondentparametersoftherelationships,exponentsandinterceptsoftheirpowerfunctions.Ageometricmodelofaforeststandusingaconicapproximationsuggestedthatthereshouldbeinterrelationsbetweencorrespondentexponentsandinterceptsoftherelationships.Itisequivalenttoatypeof‘relationshipbetweenrelationships’thatmightexistinaforeststandundergoingself-thinning,andmeansthatparametersofonerelationshipmaybepredictedfromparametersofanother.Thepredictionsofthemodelweretestedwithdataonforeststandstructurefrompublisheddatabasesthatinvolvedanumberoftreesspeciesandsitequalitylevels.Itwasfoundthatthecorrespondentexponentsandinterceptsmaybedirectlyrecalculatedfromoneanotherforthesimplestcasewhenthetotalstemsurfaceareawasindependentofstanddensity.Forcaseswheretotalstemsurfaceareachangeswiththedropofdensity,itispossibletodevelopageneralizationofthemodelinwhichtheinterrelationshipsbetweencorrespondentparameters(exponentsandintercepts)maybestillestablished.
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    出处 《林业研究:英文版》 2018年3期
    出版日期 2018年03月13日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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