T. R. Crow
Published: 2018-01-12
Total Pages: 26
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Excerpt from Tree Growth in a Moist Tropical Forest of Puerto Rico Information on growth rates, both for individual trees and for forest stands, is vital to forest plan ning and management. Such information is needed for a variety of sitesand stand conditions in the moist tropical forests of the western hemisphere. In this paper, growth rates for individual trees are reported for two secondary stands and one mature stand in the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico. Estimates are based on long-term measure ments, taken in 1957 and again in 1975, on more than individuals of 18 species. In addition, the variability in growth rates is related to species, crown position, diameter class, elevation (and simultaneously climate), and topographic position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.