RT Journal Article
T1 Development of stand density management diagrams for Chinese fir plantations
A1 Tang, Xiaolu
A1 Pérez Cruzado, César
A1 Vor, Torsten
A1 Fehrmann, Lutz
A1 Álvarez González, Juan Gabriel
A1 Kleinn, Christoph
AB Stand density management diagrams (SDMDs) are powerful tools for the design, display and evaluation of different density management regimes derived without long-term thinning trials in the field. The SDMDs can be used to predict future stand development based on specific thinning schedules and to optimize forest management. Even though Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook) covers the largest area in China's plantations with an area of 8.54 million ha, there is no management tool for optimization of different management regimes. In this study, SDMDs, generated from common one-time inventory data, provided information about the evolution of quadratic mean diameter, stand volume, stem and aboveground biomass with stand development for the widely planted Chinese fir plantations in southern China. A system of four equations was fitted simultaneously to data collected from 74 inventory plots. Relative spacing index was used to characterize the growing stock. These SDMDs can be easy tools for local forest managers to estimate the stand volume, stem and aboveground biomass and could be the reference to determine optimum thinning schedules.
PB Oxford Academic
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41107
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41107
LA eng
NO Tang, X., Pérez Cruzado, C., Vor, T., Fehrmann, L., Álvarez González, J. G. & Kleinn, C. (2016). Development of stand density management diagrams for Chinese fir plantations. Forestry (London), 89(1), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv024
NO This article has been accepted for publication in Forestry, vol. 89, no. 1 (2016), published by Oxford University Press, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv024
NO The study was supported by a project of Sino-German Cooperation on Innovative Technologies and Service Capacities of Multifunctional Forest Management (Lin2Value 033L049-CAFYBB2012013), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chinese Academy of Forestry.
DS Minerva
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