Finite mixture model for the application in forestry

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.321How to use a DOI?

Keywords

finite mixture model, Weibull function, Diameter-class distribution, mixed-species forest stand.

Abstract

Finite mixture model (FMM) has been used extensively to fit such distribution in different study fields including medicine, biology, fisheries, forestry, environmental science, engineering, and economics. This study compares three diameter distribution models to fit mixed-species forest stands using four example plots with two or three species components in Daxing'an Mountain P.R. China. Our results indicated that the FMM models are more flexible to describe highly skewed and irregular diameter distributions for the whole plot, as well as provide the acceptable estimation for each species component and the mixing proportions. Thus, the FMM models can be a useful tool for effectively managing mixed-species forest stands.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fuxiang Liu
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Finite mixture model for the application in forestry
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1492
EP  - 1497
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesame-17.2017.321
DO  - 10.2991/icesame-17.2017.321
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