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The key to successful timber management is a proper understanding of growth processes, and one of the objectives of modelling forest development is to provide the tools that enable foresters to compare alternative silvicultural treatments. In a managed woodland, the most important periodic disturban...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gadow, Klaus von
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hui, Gangying
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1999]
Series:Forestry sciences ; v. 57.
Subjects:
Forests and forestry > Simulation methods.
Trees > Growth > Simulation methods.
Forest management.
Foresterie > Simulation, Méthodes de.
Arbres > Croissance > Simulation, Méthodes de.
Forêts > Gestion.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Projecting Regional Timber Resources
  • 3. Modelling Stand Development
  • 4. Size Class Models
  • 5. Individual Tree Growth
  • 6. Model Evaluation.