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Theories and Concepts in Individual-Based Forest Ecology

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Ecology is a comparatively young field of natural sciences. It has gained considerable influence and popularity over the last five to six decades. In ecology, interactions between individuals and environmental factors but also among the individuals of a population play an important role. The understanding of forest ecology is important in itself and prepares the ground for sustainable forest management. A number of conceptual theories have been developed in ecology to explain observed phenomena such as the natural maintenance of species diversity in tropical forest ecosystems. These form the background to individual-based ecology and the quantitative methods described in this book are often used to test them or to develop new ones. Finally tree mechanics offer different insights on interaction processes and tree growth.

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Pommerening, A., Grabarnik, P. (2019). Theories and Concepts in Individual-Based Forest Ecology. In: Individual-based Methods in Forest Ecology and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24528-3_2

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