Fig. 5From: Density and diameter distributions of saplings in naturally regenerated and planted coniferous stands in Québec after various approaches of commercial thinningSimulation illustrating the effect of the thinning treatment into the sapling distribution predictions for the three Gsp on the two stand types (natural stand and plantation). For each stand type, all of the stand characteristics remain identical, only the treatment changes. On the plantation (natural stand), the density of merchantable trees per hectare and their mean dbh in cm are set to 1460 (62) and 16 (16) for WS, 244 (1661) and 16 (17) for BF and 36 (38) and 14 (12) for WHBack to article page