The study is aimed to determine the resistance of fibreboards made of milled coconut (Cocos nucifera [L.]) husk and bonded with tannin adhesive (Coconut Fibreboards - CFB) against wood-destroying insects and fungi under laboratory and field conditions. Marine plywood (MPW) samples were included in...

This article offers a balanced view of the main and recent events and trends in the forest industry of Russia, Europe, and the world amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and an excess supply of bark beetle-damaged wood. The impact of the pandemic on the supply and demand balance was detailed, such as the...

Over the past 20 years, the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) has caused considerable tree mortality across the Rocky Mountain region of the western United States. Although the operational and cost impacts of dead timber are generally well known in the sawmill industry, there remains a ...

Intensive forestry is a threat to biodiversity, and therefore actions are made to mitigate this loss. The actions are, however, designed based on available knowledge about the requirements of species, and for saproxylic insects this concerns mainly Coleoptera, while the diverse but poorly known...

The details of the lignocellulose deconstruction processes in the digestive systems of wood-feeding insects remain elusive. This study aimed to examine the biochemical conversion of lignocellulose in the digestive system of a wood-feeding anobiid beetle, Nicobium hirtum, one of the most important...

The United Nations estimates the rate of deforestation over 10 million hectares per year, with additional infested wood available due to drought, bark beetle calamity and other damage vectors. Processing the hard-to-reach infested wood into biochar via mobile pyrolysis units seems to be a good...

Attack by defoliator insects reduces wood production and may affect quality. The objective of this work was to evaluate the tree growth, chemical, physical and anatomical properties of 5-year-old Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus urophylla wood, both sound and attacked by Gonipterus platensis...

In this research, the time consumption of a CF Moto Gladiator 800 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with a Vahva Jussi 1500/320 log trailer was researched by the timber forwarding in the forests of the Eagle Mountains in the Czech Republic. The study was conducted in an area with a minimal slope, the...

To mitigate the impact of clear-cutting, strip-cutting has been prescribed in Japan. When harvesting trees, logging to construct strip roads is often conducted in adjacent forests. To evaluate the impacts of these logging practices, we collected necrophagous silphid and dung beetles in conifer...