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  title info:
    title: Forest mensuration
  name:
    name part: Kershaw, John A.
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ducey, Mark J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Beers, Thomas W.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Husch, Bertram
    name part: 1923-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: Fifth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 613 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: Forest mensuration - the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products - holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As demands on the world's forests have grown, scientists and professionals are increasingly called on to quantify forest composition, structure, and the goods and services forests provide. Grounded in geometry, sampling theory, and ecology as well as practical field experience, forest mensuration offers opportunities for creative problem solving and critical thinking. This fifth edition of the classic volume, Forest Mensuration, includes coverage of traditional and emerging topics, with attention to SI and Imperial units throughout. The book has been reorganised from the fourth edition to better integrate non-timber and ecological aspects of forest mensuration at the tree, stand, forest, and landscape scales throughout. The new edition includes new chapters that specifically address the integration of remotely sensed data in the forest inventory process, and inventory methods for dead and downed wood. One unifying theme, not only for traditional forestry but for the non-timber inventory and for remote sensing, is the use of covariates to make sampling more efficient and spatially explicit. This is introduced in the introductory chapter on statistics and the chapter on sampling designs has been restructured to highlight this approach and lay the foundation for further learning. New examples will be developed throughout the textbook with an emphasis on current issues and international practice. Students in applied forestry programs will find ample coverage of forest products and timber inventory, while expanded material on biodiversity, biomass and carbon inventory, downed dead wood, and the growing role of remote sensing in forest assessment will be valuable to a broader audience in applied ecology. About the AuthorsJohn A. Kershaw, Jr. Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of…
  table of contents: Principles of measurement -- Basic statistical concepts -- Land area determination in forest mensuration -- Individual tree parameters -- Determination of tree volume, weight, and biomass -- Measurement of primary forest products -- Stand parameters -- Sampling units for estimating parameters -- Sampling designs in forest inventories -- Inventory of standing trees using sampling with varying probability -- Inventory of downed dead material using sampling with varying probability -- Integrating remote sensing in forest inventory -- Measurement of tree and stand growth.
  note: by John A Kershaw, Jr., Mark J. Ducey, Thomas W. Beers, Bertram Husch.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Forests and forestry
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Forest surveys
  classification: SD555 .K47 2016
  classification: 634.9
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    title info:
      title: Forest mensuration
    name:
      name part: Kershaw, John A., 1962-
    origin info:
      publisher: Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley/Blackwell, 2017
      edition: Fifth edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2016036142
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    record creation date: 161109
    record change date: 20260214204746.3
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