The Possibility of Changing a Forest Type from an Artificial Forest Stand to a Multiple-layered Forest Stand by Scenic Thinning

Stochastic Forest Stand Value

The paper uses both the single rotation and ongoing rotation framework to study the impact of yield tax, lump-sum tax, cash flow tax and tax on interest rate earnings on the privately optimal rotation period when forest value growth is stochastic and forest owners are either risk neutral or risk averse. In the case of risk-neutral forest owner higher yield tax raises the optimal harvesting thre...

Forest Growth Simulation: Tropical Rain Forest Stand Table Projection

The study on the tree growth for four species groups of commercial timber in Koh Kong province, Cambodia’s tropical rainforest is described. The simulation for these four groups had been successfully developed in the 5-year interval through year-60. Data were obtained from twenty permanent sample plots in the duration of thirteen years. The aim for this study was to develop stand table simulati...

Forest Stand Structure and Development: Implications for Forest Management

A general premise of forest managers is that modern silviculture should be based, in large part, on natural disturbance patterns and species' adaptations to these disturbances. An understanding of forest stand dynamics is therefore a prerequisite to sound forest management. This paper provides a brief overview of forest stand development, stand structures, and disturbance regimes and discusses ...

Stand dynamics of an oak woodland forest and effects of a restoration treatment on forest health

Stand development following precommercial thinning and fertilization treatments in a western redcedar (Thuja plicata) dominated forest

Western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don.) is an important North American tree species, but little information is available on its long-term responses to silvicultural treatments. Stand responses (mortality, ingrowth, basal area and volume growth, and distributions of trees by diameter and height classes) were followed for 25 years after thinning and fertilization treatments (alone and in...