The production of poles in Chile is done by choosing trees specially selected for that purpose, however, the forestry that is massively applied is oriented to the simultaneous production of pruned, sawn and pulpable logs. Silviculture for the specific production of poles in Chile is a technically...

New Zealand's radiata pine plantation industry has been underpinned by advances in silvicultural practices that have resulted in productivity gains and a greater certainty in outcomes. Significant advances have been made in tree improvement, stock production in nurseries, establishment practices,...

This study aimed to achieve early and sustained rapid growth to attempt to exceed the current known maximum yields of 13 species, thereby demonstrating the climatic limitations to high-yielding species on this site. The species chosen were: Corsican pine, Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Douglas fir,...

Representing the spatial distribution of trees and competition interactions in growth models improves growth prediction and provides insights into spatially explicit forecasts for precise silvicultural interventions. However, this information is rarely taken into account over large areas because...

The purpose of this paper is develop an industry-level (average) estimate of annual investment returns from industrial planted forests in New Zealand, from publicly-available financial statement data. The research used data from seven New Zealand commercial forest-growing companies, for the period...

Intensively managed forests are expected to play an increasingly important role in meeting future global demand for wood products. To meet this challenge, a key focus will be on lifting yields from these forests along with economic returns. In this study, we used data from a long-term series of...

The introduction of fast-growing species afforestation in grassland could induce changes on the water flows with the consequent soil dissolved salts mobilization. The magnitude/direction of these water flows, and therefore, the soil salts accumulation will depend on climatic, hydrogeological and...

A Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) assessment was evaluated comparing three harvesting systems on intensively managed Pinus radiata (radiata pine) plantations growing in the Biobío Region, Chile. Evaluated systems considered semi-mechanized, mechanized, and tower logging in steep slope forest operations....

Unerring prediction of potential to facilitate native regeneration at clearcut pine plantations provided a strong basis for this collaborative project between forest resources companies and environmentalists. The resulting recovery of nearly 700 ha of native forest to date has allowed unlikely...

The biomass content and carbon captured by forest plantations is of interest, for example in the context of climate change and carbon budgets. The main objective of our study was to develop functions to estimate the total biomass and its components (stem, branches, bark and leaves) of Pinus radiata ...