We review the main silvicultural interventions used when managing Eucalyptus plantations
for solid-wood products, including fertilising, pruning and thinning. The growth of a …

The subtropical eucalypt plantation estate in eastern Australia has developed over several
major periods of expansion and has now reached over 115000 ha. Before 1994 state …

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 …

To improve the productivity and wood quality of poplar plantations, effects of four planting
spacing on canopy characteristics, biomass production and stem roundness in poplar …

We review the management of Eucalyptus species under a coppice-with-standards (CWS)
silvicultural system. CWS management results in product diversification, permitting …

Planting trees in tropical countries is becoming an increasingly important forestry activity as
many tropical countries that depended on wood supply from natural forests are recognizing …

Commercial thinning is a silvicultural treatment used to increase the merchantable yield of
residual trees. Growth response to thinning, however, is highly variable and discrepancies …

Stocking at and after thinning forest plantations influences the site resources available to
each tree, thereby affecting the size of logs and the value of the stand at harvest. Log prices …

Pine forests provide goods and services crucial to more than ten million people living in the
middle-mountains (600–4000 m) of Nepal. These critically important forests are already …

Thinning of forestry plantations is a common silviculture practice to increase growth rates
and to produce larger dimension logs. The wood properties, basic density and stiffness, are …