Maximum response of loblolly pine plantations to silvicultural management in the southern United States

D Zhao, M Kane, R Teskey, TR Fox, TJ Albaugh… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Pine plantations in the southern US are among the most intensively managed forests in the
world and their productivity has tripled over natural pine forests through application of …

Modelling dominant height growth from national forest inventory individual tree data with short time series and large age errors

RP Sharma, A Brunner, T Eid, BH Øyen - Forest Ecology and Management, 2011 - Elsevier
We developed dominant height growth models for Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.)
and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Norway using national forest inventory (NFI) data. The …

Climate‐diameter growth relationships of black spruce and jack pine trees in boreal O ntario, C anada

N Subedi, M Sharma - Global Change Biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
To predict the long‐term effects of climate change–global warming and changes in
precipitation–on the diameter (radial) growth of jack pine (P inus banksiana L amb.) and …

Predicting site index of plantation loblolly pine from biophysical variables

CO Sabatia, HE Burkhart - Forest ecology and management, 2014 - Elsevier
Concerns of the effect of climate change on forest productivity have impelled the need to
accurately predict forest productivity from climate, physiographic and edaphic variables …

Modeling climatic effects on stand height/site index of plantation-grown jack pine and black spruce trees

M Sharma, N Subedi, M Ter-Mikaelian… - Forest Science, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Stand height/site index equations that incorporate climate variables were developed for
plantation-grown jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] …

Site index models for main forest-forming tree species in Poland

J Socha, L Tymińska-Czabańska, E Grabska, S Orzeł - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Site index is the most commonly used measure of potential site productivity, providing key
information for forest management practices. It is determined using species-specific site …

Mapping pine plantations in the southeastern US using structural, spectral, and temporal remote sensing data

ME Fagan, DC Morton, BD Cook, J Masek… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The southeastern US produces the most industrial roundwood in the US each year, largely
from commercial pine plantations. The extent of plantation forests and management …

Integrating regional climate change into allometric equations for estimating tree aboveground biomass of Masson pine in China

L Fu, X Lei, Z Hu, W Zeng, S Tang, P Marshall… - Annals of Forest …, 2017 - Springer
Key message A climate-sensitive aboveground biomass (AGB) equation, in combination
with nonlinear mixed-effects modeling and dummy variable approach, was developed to …

An empirical comparison of two subject-specific approaches to dominant heights modeling: The dummy variable method and the mixed model method

M Wang, BE Borders, D Zhao - Forest Ecology and Management, 2008 - Elsevier
The varying (local) parameter (s) in site index models can be treated as fixed or random.
Two primary subject-specific approaches to height modeling, the dummy variable method …

Climatic effects on site productivity of red pine plantations

M Sharma, J Parton - Forest Science, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Climatic effects on site productivity of red pine (Pinus resinosa Aiton) plantations were
examined. A stand height/site index equation with climate variables incorporated in the …