A plant's immediate neighborhood reflects its realized level of competitive stress, since competition and natural selection act at the individual level. In stands with continuous canopies competition for light is the dominant spatial interaction. Over 100 spatially explicit indices have been used to characterize the local competitive environment in models...
The focusing of public attention on the practices of forest managers has resulted
in the need for new tools to help explain the results of these practices. The traditional
tools of tables and graphs of numerical values require a significant investment in
learning the forestry profession. Once the investment is...