Stand level height-diameter mixed effects models: parameters fitted using loblolly pine but calibrated for sweetgum

Curtis L. Vanderschaaf

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Stand level height-diameter mixed effects models: parameters fitted using loblolly pine but calibrated for sweetgum

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Authors:

Curtis L. Vanderschaaf

Year:

2008

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 April 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 386-393.

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Abstract

Mixed effects models can be used to obtain site-specific parameters through the use of model calibration that often produces better predictions of independent data. This study examined whether parameters of a mixed effect height-diameter model estimated using loblolly pine plantation data but calibrated using sweetgum plantation data would produce reasonable predictions of sweetgum.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, 16th central hardwood forest conference

Citation

Vanderschaaf, Curtis L. 2008. Stand level height-diameter mixed effects models: parameters fitted using loblolly pine but calibrated for sweetgum. In: Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 April 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 386-393.