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(...) Relationships of leaf area to sapwood area, stem respiration to sapwood volume and vigour to growth efficiency provide equations for tree growth, leaf-area dynamics and canopy structure. The model simulates mixed-age, mixed-species populations of trees on a 1000-m 2 patch. The test site, Fiby urskog (central Sweden), has been unmanaged since a catastrophic storm in 1795. (...)
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