Modelling the economically viable wood in the crown of European beech trees

Kai Husmann and Bernhard Möhring

Forest Policy and Economics, 2017, vol. 78, issue C, 67-77

Abstract: Long-term forest development programs in Germany aim on an increase of close-to-nature broadleaf forest stands. This means that the economic importance of European beech is expected to increase. The economic potential of a tree basically consists of the stem as well as the economically viable wood volume in the crown. Due to the high morphological variability of European beech crowns, taper models are often not satisfactory for predicting the economically viable wood volume arising from crowns. Prediction models with a higher precision are recently still lacking. Aim of this study is thus the development of prediction model for the economically viable crown wood volume of European beech trees.

Keywords: Economically optimal wood cut; Crown morphology; European beech; Viable crown wood; Wood allocation; Forest management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.01.009

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