Abstract:The long-term study of old-growth forest stands helps to understand the small-scale natural forest dynamic processes driven by the population biology of trees. The sampled trees can be considered from the viewpoint of their life and death cycle from establishment through to growing and death to full degradation. We provide a methodological framework for tracking and interpreting tree history in interaction with resurvey sampling events. The history of living and dead trees is consecutive and closely related to… Show more
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