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Table II

Competition indices examined in the study as taken from Rouvinen and Kuuluvainen (1997). Index i denotes the subject tree and j the competitor, n is the number of competitors inside a 5-m radius from the subject tree, hi is the height of the subject tree, hj is the height of the competitor, di is the DBH of the subject tree, dj is the DBH of the competitor, and Lij is the distance between the subject tree and the competitor.

, hj > 0.8hi