Depiction of contiguous forest area development and metric calculation examples related to core forest
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Depiction of contiguous forest area development and metric calculation examples related to core forest models (upper left panel), flood inundation models (upper right panel), adjacent land cover types (lower left panel), and historic land cover classifications (lower right panel).
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