An Evaluation of the Plant Density Estimator the Point-Centred Quarter Method (PCQM) Using Monte Carlo Simulation

• Md Nabiul Islam Khan ,

  * E-mail: mkhan@ulb.ac.be; mnikhan@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles–ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium, Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany, Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

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• Renske Hijbeek,

  Affiliations Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium, Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

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• Uta Berger,

  Affiliation Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany

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• Nico Koedam,

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium

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• Uwe Grueters,

  Affiliation Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany

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• S. M. Zahirul Islam,

  Affiliation Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

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• Md Asadul Hasan,

  Affiliation Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

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• Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

  Affiliations Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles–ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium, Biodiversity and Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel–VUB, Brussels, Belgium

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