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Approaches for forest disturbance studies: natural variability and tree regeneration

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Acknowledgments

We wish to express our gratitude to all of our colleagues of the SNS network and to all authors of the current issue. The editorial work was supported by The Ministry of Education and Research (project SF0170014s08) and by the Estonian Science Foundation Grant No. 8496. We are grateful to Karit Jäärats for English language correction.

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  1. Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014, Tartu, Estonia

    Ahto Kangur & Marek Metslaid

  2. Uryu Experimental Forest, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Moshiri, Horokanai, 074-0741, Japan

    Toshiya Yoshida

  3. Laboratory of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Science, University of Ryukyus, 13 Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota

  4. Disturbance Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Marek Metslaid

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Kangur, A., Yoshida, T., Kubota, Y. et al. Approaches for forest disturbance studies: natural variability and tree regeneration. J For Res 16, 153–154 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10310-011-0284-3

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