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The perception among scientists is that wave forests are rare. This is probably because few wave forests have been described in the scientific and technical literature, and are, therefore, largely outside the purview of forest managers. The number of reports of wave forests is growing, however. For example, until 1985, wave forests in Newfoundland were virtually unknown, although a few foresters mistook them for strange cutting patterns. Understandably, few have heard of a clonal wave krummholz, which I discovered by chance in southern Labrador in 1988.
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Robertson, A. (1993). Wind and Wave Forests: A Case Study and Implications for Silviculture. In: Alden, J.N., Mastrantonio, J.L., Ødum, S. (eds) Forest Development in Cold Climates. NATO ASI Series, vol 244. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1600-6_33
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