Author: W. D. HassePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A Simulated Comparison of Yields for Even- Versus Uneven-aged Management of Northern Hardwood Stands
Author: W. D. HasseNew Perspectives on Silvicultural Management of Northern Hardwoods
Author: C. Wayne MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Simulated Yields for Managed Northern Hardwood Stands
Author: Dale S. SolomonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Board-foot and cubic-foot yields developed with the forest growth model SlMTlM are presented for northern hardwood stands grown with and without management. SlMTlM has been modified to include more accurate growth rates by species, a new stocking chart, and yields that reflect species values and quality classes. Treatments range from no thinning to intensive quality product management over a range of sites.
General Technical Report NE
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Continuous Cover Forestry
Author: Timo PukkalaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400722028
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are often believed to be superior to monocultures in addressing a wide range of expectations. This book presents methods which are relevant to CCF management and planning: analysing forest structures, silvicultural and planning, economic evaluation, based on examples in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America.
General Technical Report SO.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A Growth Model of Natural and Silviculturally Treated Stands of Even-aged Northern Hardwoods
Author: Dale S. SolomonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest regeneration
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Multiaged Silviculture
Author: Kevin O'HaraPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191007579
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide. Over recent decades, forest science and management have tended to emphasize plantation silviculture. Whilst this clearly meets our wood production needs, many of the world's forests need to be managed far less intensively and more flexibly in order to maintain their natural ecosystem functions together with the values inherent in those processes. Developing multiaged management strategies for these complex forest ecosystems represents a global challenge to successfully integrate available science with sustainable management practices. Multiaged Silviculture covers the ecology and dynamics of multiaged stands, the management operations associated with regeneration, tending, and stocking control, and the implications of this strategy on production, genetic diversity, and stand health. It is primarily aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of forestry and silviculture, but will also be of relevance and use to all professional foresters and silviculturists.
Forest Dynamics
Author: Daniel B. BotkinPublisher:
ISBN: 0195065557
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Offering a fresh perspective on ecological phenomena, this book provides all the information necessary to understand and use the JABOWA simulation model of forest growth. It sets the forest model within the broader context of the science of ecology and the ecological issues that confront society in the management of forests.
Growth Model for Uneven-aged Loblolly Pine Stands
Author: Ching-Rong LinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loblolly pine
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A density-dependent matrix growth model of uneven-aged loblolly pine stands was developed with data from 991 permanent plots in the southern United States. The model predicts the number of pine, soft hardwood, and hard hardwood trees in 13 diameter classes, based on equations for ingrowth, upgrowth, and mortality. Projections of 6 to 10 years agreed with the growth of stands between the last two inventories. In 300-year simulations of undisturbed growth, softwood species were replaced by hardwoods, in accord with previous knowledge. Soft hardwood species became dominant on good sites and hard hardwoods on poor sites. Basal area oscillated over time, converging slowly towards a steady state. Changes in tree size diversity were correlated positively with basal area. Without disturbance, species diversity would decrease. For economic analysis, equations were developed to predict total tree height, sawlog length and volume, pulpwood volume, and volume of top sawtimber, as functions of tree diameter and stand basal area. Simulations of three cutting regimes showed that management would lead to a steady state faster than would natural growth. Management aimed at maintaining the current average distribution would result in size and species diversity similar to that of an unmanaged stand. From a financial point of view, the q-factor guide and a 13-in.- (330-mm-) diameter-limit cut would be superior to the average current management regime. The diameter-limit regime would have the greatest effect on lowering tree size diversity and an effect on species diversity similar to that of the q-factor guide. A computer program, SOUTHPRO, was developed to simulate the effects of other management alternatives.