... models e.g. [3, 23, 39, 40]. Theseresults are consistent with the dynamic process of the intra-spe-cific competition and the natural mortality of even-aged stands [8, 13, 36, 37].The use of ... number of plots without observed mortality over aperiod of t years and n0 is the number of plots with observed mortalityat the same period of time. The weight used was the inverse of where ... of these types of models are: a description of the forest state at a given pointin time; some transition functions to define the rate of change of the system depending on the current state of...