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The formal definition of different kinds of eco-units is not so easy as it appears in a forest scale-drawing (cf. Sect. 5.4). Oldeman (1983b, p. 176) defined an eco-unit as follows:
“.. the unit of vegetation which started its development at the same moment and on the same surface.”
He gave as examples a patch of forest growing in a gap, a Pinus caribaea stand, or a corn field, and mentioned the possibility of using analysis of populations of eco-units of the same kind, i.e. within one size range, at different ages but each with the same structural and functional sequential build-up.
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Oldeman, R.A.A. (1990). Forest Eco-Units. In: Forests: Elements of Silvology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75211-7_5
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