Sumários

SESSION 17

24 Novembro 2023, 08:30 • Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé

Laboratory:  
  • Exercise 6.1H-M - Developing a model to estimate site index from site and stand variables for cork oak (algorithms to select subsets of variables in linear regression)
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SESSION 16

23 Novembro 2023, 14:30 • Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé

Laboratory:  
  • Exercise 6.1I-M - Developing a model to estimate site index from site and stand variables for cork oak (graphical analysis of the correlations between the dependent variable and each one of the continuous variables; calculating the correlations and linear relationships between the dependent variable and each one of the continuous variables)
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SESSION 15

21 Novembro 2023, 14:00 • Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé

Laboratory:  
  • Exercise 6.1A-H - Developing a model to estimate site index from site and stand variables for cork oak (data preparation, creation of dummy variables for the categorical variables, analysis of the correlation between the dependent variables and the categorical variables, grouping classes of the categorical variables)
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SESSION 14

17 Novembro 2023, 08:30 • Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé

Discussion: discussion with the students of topics presented in previous classes

Lecture: Forest productivity evaluation
  • Factors influencing forest productivity
  • Productivity management
  • Evaluation of forest productivity: direct and indirect evaluation
  • Site index curves
  • Site index models
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SESSION 13

16 Novembro 2023, 14:30 • Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé

Lecture: Forest growth functions
  • Simultaneous modelling of several individuals (trees or stands): growth functions expressed as difference equations; expressing the parameters as a function of stand and site variables
  •  Formulating growth functions without age explicit
Laboratory:
  • Exploring the impact of different values of the parameters in the shape of growth functions (exercises 5.1 to 5.4)
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