Size distribution and expansion of canop
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Jeffrey R. Foster; William A. Reiners
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Article
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1986
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Canopy gap area/age distributions and growth mechanisms were examined in a virgin subalpine forest in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA. The gap area distribution was negative exponential in form. Whithin gap tree ages varied widely in response to stepwise gap expansion caused by windthrow of