Skidders are common in forest operations in many parts of the world, and in many regions they are used in steep terrain harvesting. An observational modelling study was carried out to estimate the time consumption and productivity of winching operations deployed in four types of silvicultural...

Schall et al. (2020) assessed how a combination of different forest management systems in managed forest landscapes dominated by European beech may affect the biodiversity (alpha, beta and gamma) of 14 taxonomic groups. Current forest policy and nature conservation often demand for combining...

Traditional thinning and stand silviculture had positive effects on tree stability, stand efficiency and tree growth if compared to the lack of management. Nevertheless, the tree oriented silviculture has proven to be a type of management best meets the multifunctionality pourpouses required by...

Indicators are increasingly required to support a fine-tuning between sustainable forestry and multiple environmental targets. A data mining strategy was implemented in this study to assess the overall impact of traditional and innovative silviculture on stand structure in a sample of beech forests ...

The present paper intends for the first time to frame common beech from the Southern Carpathians in the smart forest's category, a new concept similar with Climate-Smart Agriculture. This framing is based on data from forest management plans characteristic to higher than 40-year-old common beech...

Habitat fragmentation and forest management have been considered to drastically alter the nature of forest ecosystems globally. However, much uncertainty remains regarding the causative mechanisms mediating temperate forest responses, such as forest physical environment and the structure of woody...

Silvicultural success in achieving, among other management goals, maximum productivity strongly depends on knowledge of the relationship between stand density and the resulting growth response of a stand. However, there are still controversial discussions whether wood production can be enhanced by...

Research Highlights: Management of the risks forests are exposed to is based on the dynamics of the composition and structure of the stands and the forest. Background and Objectives: This study aimed to document the dynamics of the composition and structure of stands and forest in the Romanian...

Due to traditional forest management, the primary goal of which is the production of raw wood material, commercial forest stands are characterized by low biodiversity. At the same time, commercial forests make up the majority of forests in the Central European region, which means a significant...

Forest development models predict development of trees and forest stands according to tree, stand, site, and forest management factors. Due to complex nature of forest ecosystems and long production cycles, forest development modelling is an important feature of forest management. Stand models have ...