Forestry in Belgium

Integer programming in forestry

After finishing my Ph.D. in Berkeley in 1971, I needed a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, while my wife was finishing her Ph.D. in statistics. It was a tough year jobwise and the only available position was a part-time job with the US Forest Service Station in Berkeley, which funded a position as a Research Engineer at the OR Center at UC Berkeley. My boss and friend up to today, Daniel Navon...

Herbicides in Southern Forestry

Environmental interest groups have traditionally equated herbicide use with degradation of water quality. If the entire water quality picture is rationally analyzed. the conclusions are quite the contrary. Use of herbicides compared to mechanical site preparation improves or maintains water quality. Short-duration pulses of residues may appear in streamflow. but data from forest ecosystem studi...

Trends in forestry modelling

Different types of models have been developed and applied to address various problems and issues in forestry. This paper reviews modelling trends in four areas, namely, forest management planning and decision-making, forest dynamics and growth projection, forest landscape and spatial models and participatory forest management models. The first type includes decision models generally structured ...

Statistical Methodology in Forestry

Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006

Bluetongue has emerged recently in Belgium. A bluetongue virus strain was isolated and characterized as serotype 8. Two new real-time reverse transcription-quantitative PCRs (RT-qPCRs) that amplified 2 different segments of bluetongue virus detected this exotic strain. These 2 RT-qPCRs detected infection earlier than a competitive ELISA for antibody detection.