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Many forest population processes operate over long time periods and large areas, at scales which are difficult to study. Concentration on localized forest decline in one place and at one time may obscure this temporal landscape context. However, the effects on forest structure and composition of recent manmade environmental changes cannot be assessed unless the scales of natural demographic processes occurring in forest are first understood (Mueller- Dombois 1986, 1987, 1988).
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Ogden, J., Lusk, C.H., Steel, M.G. (1993). Episodic Mortality, Forest Decline and Diversity in a Dynamic Landscape: Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. In: Huettl, R.F., Mueller-Dombois, D. (eds) Forest Decline in the Atlantic and Pacific Region. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76995-5_20
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