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1. In silviculture and management, a tree community that possesses sufficient uniformity in composition, constitution, age, spatial arrangement, or condition to be distinguishable from adjacent communities. This tree community forms a silvicultural or management entity; for example, a subcompartment. Both natural and artificial crops are included, and there is no connotation of a particular age. 2. In mensuration, the amount of timber and/or fuelwood standing on an area, generally expressed as volume per unit area; for example, board feet per acre or cubic meters per hectare. 3. In the United States, growth of trees on a minimum of 1 acre of forest land that is at least 16. 7 percent stocked by forest trees of any size.
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- Category: Forest engineering & harvesting
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