Regional-Specific Algorithmic Stand Density Management Diagram for Black Spruce

A Preliminary White Spruce Density Management Diagram for the Lake States

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A Decision-Support Model for Regulating Black Spruce Site Occupancy Through Density Management

Crown Management and Stand Density

Stand density management allows a forester to utilize mortality and promote individual tree vigor. However, even after four decades of spacing studies, planning for stand density management remains a difficult problem. Forest management approaches the problem with sophisticated analysis, but the heart of the analysis depends on statistical growth models fit to data from empirical field trials. ...

Soil carbon stabilization along climate and stand productivity gradients in black spruce forests of interior Alaska1

The amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) in stable, slow-turnover pools is likely to change in response to climate warming because processes mediating soil C balance (net primary production and decomposition) vary with environmental conditions. This is important to consider in boreal forests, which constitute one of the world’s largest stocks of SOC. We investigated changes in soil C stabilizati...

Stand Density Management: Results from Research in Southern Pine

Introduction The relationship between stand density and volume growth in southern pine species is a topic of long standing interest. Early work includes that of McClay (1955) who studied the relationship between periodic annual growth per acre and residual stand density after thinning measured as basal area. Using linear regression analysis he found a trend of increasing growth with increasing ...