Classifying development stages of primeval European beech forests: is clustering a useful tool?

Classifying development stages of primeval European beech forests: is clustering a useful tool?

Abstract Background Old-growth and primeval forests are passing through a natural development cycle with recurring stages of forest development. Several methods for assigning patches of different structure and size to forest development stages or phases do exist. All currently existing classificatio...

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Main Authors: Jonas Glatthorn, Eike Feldmann, Vath Tabaku, Christoph Leuschner, Peter Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Ecology
Subjects:
Fagus sylvatica
Forest dynamics
Spatial observation scale
Moving window
Primeval forests
Forest development cycle
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-018-0203-y

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