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Résumé :
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This book provides comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the various growth patterns of forests, including the role of disturbances. The book brings together information from physiology, ecology, and silviculture and compares patterns in different regions. The book presents the following chapters: Introduction. Plant interactions and limitations of growth. Tree architecture and growth. Disturbances and stand development patterns. Temporal and spatial patterns of tree invasion. Stand initiation stage : single cohort stands. Stem exclusion stage : single cohort stands, single species stands, mixed-species stands. Understory reinitiation stage. Old growth stage. Multicohort stands. Behavior of component cohorts. Development of multicohort stands. Stand edges, gaps and clumps. Quantification of stand development. Forest patterns over long times and large areas.
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