Using quadratic mean diameter and relative spacing index to enhance height–diameter and crown ratio models fitted to longitudinal data

P Saud, TB Lynch, A KC, JM Guldin - Forestry, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The inclusion of quadratic mean diameter (QMD) and relative spacing index (RSI)
substantially improved the predictive capacity of height–diameter at breast height (dbh) and …

Dynamic fire regimes and forest conditions across three centuries in a shortleaf pine-oak forest in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, USA

WT Flatley, LM Bragg, DC Bragg - Annals of the American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the interior highlands of the eastern United States, there is evidence that fire was frequent
in some forests during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before declining drastically …