A pilot study of continuous cover forestry in boreal forests: Do remaining trees affect forwarder productivity?

According to the literature, forwarding productivity depends chiefly on log concentration, number of assortments, mean volume, load-size, slope, and extraction distance. However, there is not much scientific knowledge available in continuous cover forestry (CCF) boreal forests, nor whether presence remaining trees actually affects productivity. Thus, objective our study was isolate effect remaining (i.e. stand density) during CCF, specifically selection cutting. The results showed that explained mainly by while other factors had at most minor effects. Most importantly, density did significantly affect productivity, ceteris paribus. we conclude do forests. Although from this CCF operation must only be cautiously applied even-aged forestry, raise a general question: need separate models for thinning clearcut operations forests if (stand productivity? Because small dataset, consider paper pilot whose findings verified studies based larger datasets including several operators stands.