Abstract

BARRETO, Luís Soares. Growth, Regeneration, and Survival Indices for Tree Species. Silva Lus. [online]. 2009, vol.17, n.1, pp.83-95. ISSN 0870-6352.

The author establishes growth, regeneration, and survival indices for tree species, grounded upon the sensitivity of the dominant vector of the Leslie model of the aged-structured population of the species. He applies the indices to European and North American species and he evaluates its performance.

Keywords : Growth index; life-history strategy; regeneration index; survival index; tree species.

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