“…tree vitality or age) diversity. As Heshmatol Vaezin et al (2009) pointed out, the area occupied by a growing tree changes over time, and thus a Faustmann maximization of the Land Expectation Value lacks a reference area. When developing models closer to continuous cover forests, more recent studies circumvented this issue, for instance, by composing a more diverse forest of several age cohorts (cf.…”