**Author details**

Omar Cabrera1,2\*, Pablo Ramón2 , Bernd Stimm<sup>2</sup> , Sven Gunter2,3 and Reinhard Mosandl<sup>1</sup>

1 Department of Life Science Systems, Institute of Silviculture, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

2 Department of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, Private Technical University of Loja, Loja, Ecuador

3 Institut für Internationale Waldwirtschaft und Forstökonomie, Hamburg, Germany

\*Address all correspondence to: hocabrera@utpl.edu.ec

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