... According to this basic structure, the whole -stand model requires five stand- level inputs for simulation: the age of the stand at the beginning and the end of the projection interval,and the initial ... initial age provided sufficient information about the future trajectory of the basal area of the stand, regardlessits thinning history. Therefore, the thinning effect is built into the model, in ... subset of 155 of the initially established plots was re-measured in the win-ter of 1998. Following similar criteria, a subset of 46 of the twice-measured plots were measured again in the winter of...