In Italy, black pine has been largely used in reforestation projects in the past. Most of these reforestations are characterized by a high instability, vulnerability, and a limited resistance to atmospheric agents. In this situation, it is crucial to define silvicultural interventions able to...

There is great interest in determining the effects of forest thinning as a tool to improve growth recovery from drought in different tree species and climatic conditions. However, we lack a robust framework to determine how transient are post-drought growth resilience and enhancement, and if such...

This paper proposes a simple and direct method to provide reliable approximations of the net present value (NPV) and the perpetual value (PV) of sustainable timber harvests from a monospecific uneven-aged forest based on dimensionless numbers. In addition, two new dimensionless numbers ρ _NPV and ρ ...

Juvenile wood is associated with shrinkage and a high probability of warping and checks in end products, reducing their value and even causing them to be rejected for structural purposes. This work studies the variations in yearly shrinkage caused when wood passes from green to dry state. The...

Conservation of biodiversity and natural forests is a very current topic an of great importance both at the global and national levels. In this context, at the Băile Herculane Forestry District, simultaneously with the forest management planning works from 2021-2022, all the stands were analyzed in ...

Total height is one of the basic morphometric tree variables included in all forest management inventories, because it is connected with several forest processes and functions related to the estimation of the woody tree volume and sustainable forest yield. The current research, based on a total...

Context: The crown volume of trees is rarely considered in forest management practices and is often approximated to a simple cone or paraboloid whose volume can be broadly derived from costly measurements. Aims: We developed two equations to predict single-tree crown volumes for Pinus nigra...

Mediterranean forests and fire regimes are closely intertwined. Global change is likely to alter both forest dynamics and wildfire activity, ultimately threatening the provision of ecosystem services and posing greater risks to society. In this paper we evaluate future wildfire behavior by coupling ...

Modern technology and instruments in forestry are increasingly used in determining the condition of forests, processing and analysis of collected field data. Terestrial measurements use instruments that are constantly innovated in hardware and software, including Field-Map (FM) technology....

Three types of nonlinear height-diameter models, simple, generalized mixed effects and fixed, were evaluated against independent data from even-aged black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) natural stands located in Olympus National Park in Greece in an effort to accurately predict total tree height (h). A...