I'm trying to find information on the natural spacing of trees in old-growth forest ecosystems. What I'm really looking for is a diagram that would show, for instance, every single stem and bole within a hectare, or a quarter-hectare, all mapped in relation to each other and drawn to scale on a grid. Ideally I'd like to see this for several different kinds of forests--coastal swamp, Appalachian mountains, Pacific Northwest, etc.--but at this point, I'll take anything.
There must be any number of studies on this sort of thing, but I'm having a difficult time finding them, perhaps because I don't know the exact terminology which forest ecologists would use. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be most grateful indeed. Thanks very much, John A.
