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Competition is so fierce that they all grow spindly and weak. A strong storm could flatten the entire grove. It dies back and regrows constantly, no tree ever getting very large. Or rarely. With accompanying crash and surge in forest animal populations. Unstable.


Wildlife populations are a chaotic system, neither cyclical nor stable.

Much like the weather.


That's just because we see that now, after destabilization by human activity? Remember the giant sequoias - they lasted 5000 years.


As demonstrated by the logistic map[1][2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk


Storms do not easily flatten small trees, small trees are usually the most resistant to wind.


This is just a loggers point of view and too much simplified. Ecology uses more than one variable.

> A strong storm could flatten the entire grove.

I can't see why. Those are life beings, not dominoes


I could see all that, but is it “unhealthy”?

That seems like a subjective human label. If a lightening strike burns down a forest and it starts to regrow, is that forest now “unhealthy”?




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