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This region contains some of the more extensively wooded areas of Europe - some 37 per cent of the land area is forest and other woodland - but of the total area of 67 million hectares only 27 million are closed forest. Except in Yugoslavia (27 per cent) and Albania (12 per cent), a relatively high proportion of the growing stock in closed forest is coniferous (58 per cent or more), reflecting in part the incidence of various Mediterranean pines and in part the afforestation and reforestation programmes of the last 40 years.
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Richards, E.G. (1987). Southern Europe. In: Richards, E.G. (eds) Forestry and the Forest Industries: Past and Future. Forestry Sciences, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3669-0_5
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