The increasing use of satellite Remote Sensing for civilian use has proved to be the most cost effective means of mapping and monitoring environmental changes in terms of vegetation and non-renewable resources, especially in developing countries. Data can be obtained as frequently as required to provide information for determination of quantitative and qualitative changes in terrain. Forests as...

Forest management worldwide is increasingly focused on values such as biodiversity conservation, carbon, water and recreation as well as timber production. Ownership and governance arrangements are also changing, with an increase in private ownership of forest resources that is focused on timber production and devolution of management and control to the community level. Forest management is par...

The Darwinian concept of evolution provides a usef3 theoretical construct to consider the ongoing development of forest management and forest operations. For example, changing environments, “survival of the fittest”, and random mutation are processes, which have analogs within the forestry arena. The success and survival of any forest operations technology is determined by how well it meets the...

Wood biomass has been viewed as “carbon neutral”—its uses as energy have a zero carbon footprint. Some observers argue that the use of wood biofuels will result in a decrease of the forest stock and a net reduction of the carbon captured in the forest. Such assessments take a static, accounting view of forest systems and do not consider the effects of management in renewing the forest and incre...

Global climate is changing due to increasing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Forest managers need growth and yield models that can be used to predict future forest dynamics during the transition period of present-day forests under a changing climatic regime. In this study, we developed a forest growth and yield model that can be used to predict individual-tree growth under current ...