The Editorial, dedicated to FORMEC 2017 Meeting, presents "new issues and perspectives in forestry and forest engineering, and related fields - technology, financing, or forestry political agendas".
Stelian Alexandru Borz +4 more
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Decomposing Spatial β‐Diversity in the temperate forests of Northeastern China
β‐Diversity, which describes the extent of change in species composition in a given region, has become a core issue in ecology in recent years. However, it is hard to understand the underlying mechanisms of β‐diversity by using indices that yield ...
Changtuan Yu +4 more
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The importance of forestry and forest engineering: Past present future [PDF]
Until 1900, Canada had no foresters involved in logging, practising forestry or doing research. Forest engineering as a discipline held no importance whatsoever. The forest was simply exploited for its timbers and most of the forest products were sold abroad.
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Comparison of energy-wood and pulpwood thinning systems in young birch stands [PDF]
In early thinnings, a profitable alternative to pulpwood could be to harvest whole trees as energy-wood. In theoretical analyses, we compared the extractible volumes of energy-wood and pulpwood, and their respective gross values in differently aged ...
Bergström, Dan +3 more
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Creative engineering – introducing the progress of science to forestry
Implementing creative engineering, or in other words the progress of science, in forestry practice requires the integration of knowledge from its various branches concerning the impact of human activity on the Earth’s ecosystem.
Wodzicki Tomasz J.
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The relationship between biodiversity and productivity has stimulated an increasing body of research over the past decades, and this topic still occupies a central place in ecology.
Chunyu Fan +5 more
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Assessing biotic and abiotic effects on forest productivity in three temperate forests
It is well understood that biotic and abiotic variables influence forest productivity. However, in regard to temperate forests, the relative contributions of the aforementioned drivers to biomass demographic processes (i.e., the growth rates of the ...
Qingmin Yue +5 more
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Harvesting systems for steep terrain in the Italian Alps: state of the art and future prospects [PDF]
Steep slope forest operations in Central Europe and in particular in the Alps are strongly related to the adoption of the cable-based harvesting system, even if innovative ground-based harvesting system, even if innovative ground-based harvesting systems
Cavalli, Raffaele +2 more
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Prospects of application of modern technologies of remote sensing of the earth in the forest industry [PDF]
Currently, forest enterprises are characterized by depletion of forest resources and their significant remoteness. To solve a whole range of tasks related to forest management, monitoring of the environmental situation, control of the forest fire ...
Makunina Yana +5 more
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Silvicultura „apropiată de natură” a revenit in Romania dupa 20 de ani. Întânirea anuală ProSilva – 28-30 iunie 2017, Sibiu, România [ProSilva Annual Meeting 28-30 June 2017, Sibiu, Romania] [PDF]
After 20 years, Pro Silva Europe met for the 28th annual meeting in Romania (28-30 June 2017, Sibiu). The meeting was attended by 45 participants from 17 European countries which have met in Sibiu and spent together with Romanian foresters three ...
Borlea G.F.
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