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1 Department of Forestry and Environmental Engineering and Management, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2 Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

3 Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil

4 Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Universidad, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Gobierno de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain
