Growth of a Sitka Spruce Plantation: Analysis and Stochastic Description of the Development of the Branching Structure

1 April 1978

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology

Vol. 15 (1) , 227-244
https://doi.org/10.2307/2402933

Abstract

(1) Three phases of canopy development were recognised during the first 15 years of a young plantation of Picea sitchensis: (i) an initial period before `foliag...