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Comparison and ranking of different modelling techniques for prediction of site index in Mediterranean mountain forests

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dc.creator Aertsen, Wim
dc.creator Kint, Vincent
dc.creator van Orshoven, Jos
dc.creator Muys, Bart
dc.creator Ozkan, Kürşad
dc.date 2010-04-23T21:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-06T09:27:24Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-06T09:27:24Z
dc.identifier 18c28a83-541e-453b-aa4b-c5229b334608
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.01.007
dc.identifier https://avesis.sdu.edu.tr/publication/details/18c28a83-541e-453b-aa4b-c5229b334608/oai
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/54335
dc.description Forestry science has a long tradition of studying the relationship between stand productivity and abiotic and biotic site characteristics, such as climate, topography, soil and vegetation. Many of the early site quality modelling studies related site index to environmental variables using basic statistical methods such as linear regression. Because most ecological variables show a typical non-linear course and a non-constant variance distribution, a large fraction of the variation remained unexplained by these linear models. More recently, the development of more advanced non-parametric and machine learning methods provided opportunities to overcome these limitations. Nevertheless, these methods also have drawbacks. Due to their increasing complexity they are not only more difficult to implement and interpret, but also more vulnerable to overfitting. Especially in a context of regionalisation, this may prove to be problematic. Although many non-parametric and machine learning methods are increasingly used in applications related to forest site quality assessment, their predictive performance has only been assessed for a limited number of methods and ecosystems.
dc.language eng
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title Comparison and ranking of different modelling techniques for prediction of site index in Mediterranean mountain forests
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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