In the framework of sustainable forest management, measuring site quality and predicting
site productivity remain a major forestry topic. Over the past years, it has been fostered by a …

Phenotyping is the accurate and precise physical description of organisms. Accurate and
quantitative phenotyping underpins the delivery of benefits from genetic improvement …

I have attempted to reach a wide range of readers, from those with no formal forestry
education through to forest scientists involved in research. This has meant dealing with …

Trees outside closed forest stands differ in the relation between stem diameter, height and
crown volume from trees that grew with neighbours close by. Whether this plasticity in tree …

Environmental variation is a crucial driver of ecological pattern, and spatial layers
representing this variation are key to understanding and predicting important ecosystem …

Background Density is an important wood property due to its correlation with other wood
properties such as stiffness and pulp yield, as well as being central to the accounting of …

Site Index (SI) is one of the main measures of forest productivity used throughout the world.
For even-age plantations Site Index is defined as the height of dominant trees at a given …

Determining site quality is essential in order to develop sustainable forest management,
allowing more appropriate silvicultural decisions to be made. However, most studies carried …

Advances in remote sensing combined with the emergence of sophisticated methods for
large-scale data analytics from the field of data science provide new methods to model …

Der bereits zu beobachtende Klimawandel, die fortwährende Deposition von
Luftschadstoffen sowie die Erholung degradierter Standorte haben spätestens ab der …