Coppice Management for Young Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.)

Sycamore is a valuable tree not only economically but also ecological and culturally. Even though it has vigorous regeneration system from its stump, coppice management triggered limited formal investigations. Therefore, the present study focused on finding most suitable strategy for achieving ground coverage biomass, as well developing growth yield models sycamore maples. Using series of eight measurements spanning twenty-one years, starting age six, we found that single-shoot coppices provided superior yields height than seed-managed trees up to twelve twenty DBH. The outperformed seed 10. DBH single-shoots were described by parsimonious formulations, namely Schumacher model square root height. relationship DBH–height exhibited clear linear form, pointing toward main limitation study, confinement ages less 20 years. Nevertheless, all bias <10−7 an R2 around 80%, except change throughout time, which was 67%.