Abstract:Forest inventories are often carried out with a particular design, consisting of a multi-level structure of observation plots spread over a larger domain and a fixed plot design of exact observation locations within these plots. Consequently, the resulting data are collected intensively within plots of equal size but with much less intensity at larger spatial scales. The resulting data are likely to be spatially correlated both within and between plots, with spatial effects extending over two different areas. … Show more
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