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    <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE</skos:prefLabel>
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Vegetation Structure refers to the vertical arrangement of canopy layers and
plants of different life forms, or the horizontal variation in canopy
closure and canopy layers, or both.  Vegetation Structure also includes
standing dead trees (snags) and decaying logs on the ground (coarse woody
debris).</skos:definition>
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