Mycotourism is an innovative tourist product linked to rural tourism and offered as an alternative to the use of a forest resource. Here we aim to identify which tourism products have a connection to mycotourism and which mycological activities most attract people to the product. Results identify...

To judge the accuracy of international forest product statistics, we checked the consistency of the reported consumption of wood and fiber with the production of wood products. Using goal programming, we estimated for 180 countries the consumption of industrial roundwood and of paper-making fibers...

The transformation of sapwood (SW) into heartwood (HW) during ageing of wood tissues is the result of physiological and biochemical changes initiated in the transition zone (TZ). These changes contribute to the evolution of active (living) wood cells in SW into less/non-active (dead) wood cells in...

This article shows the performance of spruce bridge that represents the situation of several wooden bridges built in the 1990s in Spain with spruce and fir. In most cases, damages due to severe decay had appeared before 10 years of service life, and the magnitude and extent of the damages were so...

Nondestructive testing (NDT) includes several highly efficient techniques for the estimation of the physical and mechanical properties of structural timber. Apart from visual grading, scientific research using Nondestructive testing on timber has been used in Spain since the 1990s. Nondestructive...

The aim of this article is to provide a unified analytical methodology that allows the determination of 181 pesticides in flowers, leaves and tree trunks, in compliance with the current legislation in Europe. Most of these commodities are not included in the regulation and do not have established a ...

In the Catalan area (Spain), diuron and bentazon are extensively used to control weeds and are therefore abundant in agricultural drainage. White-rot fungi have a high potential for removing these contaminants because of a potent and nonsubstrate-specific lignin-degrading enzyme system....

Eucalyptus nitens wood samples were subjected to hydrothermal processing to obtain soluble saccharides from the hemicellulosic fraction. The hemicellulose-derived saccharides were employed as substrates for furfural production in biphasic media made up of water, methyl isobutyl ketone, and one...

The current national standard for strength grading in Spain is based on a visual classification, which, for softwood species with small cross-sections (with a thickness equa tol or less than 70 mm), establishes two different visual grades (ME-1 and ME-2). These grades are assigned to the strength...

Renewable energy in 2020 accounted for 67% of total primary energy consumption in the European Union. Countries with a high production of renewable energy are Germany, Spain, Denmark, France. Renewable energy sources are the energy of the sun, wind, water, biomass. Most of the production of...