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Until now, this book has been concerned with measurement of individual trees. However, forest owners and managers need to know how much timber or other forest products are available in total from their forest estate. This allows them to determine the overall value of the estate or to work out how much wood they can cut from it year by year and still be sure that the forest will go on producing timber forever.
One way to determine the total amount of wood, biomass or other tree products in an entire forest is to measure every single tree in it and add up the results. This would be an impossibly large task for any but the tiniest patch of forest. Instead, methods are used to scale up measurements made of some individual trees in the forest to estimate what is available from the whole forest. The concept of scaling up was introduced in Sect. 1.3.
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West, P. (2009). Stand Measurement. In: Tree and Forest Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95966-3_8
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