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Analyses of environmental factors at forested sites generally are not applicable to other sites because the sites have not been described adequately. To be more useful to other researchers, a description of the forest site should convey a physical image of the forest. Data on wind, temperature, humidity, radiation and vegetation have been presented to illustrate the variability into and within various forests. Methods of inverting environmental data to obtain information on the vertical distribution of the biomass have been cited. A strategy for describing coniferous forests has been presented.
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Fritschen, L.J. (1985). Characterization of Boundary Conditions Affecting Forest Environmental Phenomena. In: Hutchison, B.A., Hicks, B.B. (eds) The Forest-Atmosphere Interaction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5305-5_1
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