Forest site productivity is the production that can be realised at a certain site with...

This paper outlines the application of Systems Thinking in investigating ways to improve the returns...

Participatory modelling is one of several techniques that can help communities to share and test...

This special issue of Small-Scale Forestry is concerned with private native forestry (PNF) in New...

An on-line survey during August-September 2006 examined community attitudes toward private native forestry. Survey findings...

It is generally agreed that effective conservation requires the cooperation of private landholders to complement...

Forests in north-eastern New South Wales have often been the focus of controversy. The tension...

This revolutionary book is a practical guide for helping communities in any location or context...

Sustainable resource management relies upon many disciplines and deals with complex interactions at the landscape...

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future...

The h-index (Hirsch, 2005) is robust, remaining relatively unaffected by errors in the long tails...

This chapter provides a review of the statistical and modelling disciplines, their techniques and potential...

The world is continually changing: the emergence of new technology and new demands for pertinent...

The profitability of uncontrolled logging can be a significant obstacle to sustainable forest management, especially...

Forest dynamics were studied from 1993 to 1997 for individuals > 10 cm DBH in...

Structure and floristic composition of small trees and shrubs (1.5 m height to 10 cm...

We examined tree diameter growth in 20 plots subjected to various disturbance intensities (natural, low,...

Summary

1 Competition for light is a central issue in ecological questions concerning forest tree...

The long-term effects of logging treatments on rainforest regeneration are difficult to quantify due to...

A review of three mixed-species trials reveals the utility of competition indices for evaluating inter-...

This study investigated whether mixed-species designs can increase the growth of a tropical eucalypt when...

Mixed-species plantations of Eucalyptus with a nitrogen (N2) fixing species have the potential to increase...

Individual-based modelling and analysis of forest experiments has been made more accessible to researchers with...

A study of material thinned from a 9-year-old Eucalyptus dunnii progeny trial revealed that E....

Spiral grain in 181 trees from a 9-year-old plantationgrown Eucalyptus dunnii was normally distributed with...

This article analyzes geo-referenced data to elucidate the relations between deforestation and access to roads...

This paper applies a spatial economic regression model to analyze the relation between deforestation in...

Species richness is a popular indicator of ecosystem vitality, but is difficult to assess. Many...

Bruner et al. examined the effectiveness of parks in the tropics, drawing on survey data...

Biodiversity is often ill-defined and subjectively surveyed, resulting in inefficient and ambiguous estimates. Strengths and...

In subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia, changes in the diversity of trees were compared under...

Tree plantations have developed a reputation for excessive water use, with age commonly used as...

The equation SiteIndex = Height × Log(IndexYear+0.5) / Log(Age+0.5) is suggested as a robust way...

Tree plantations have developed a reputation for excessive water use, with age commonly used as...

West Timor is in the poorest and least developed province of Indonesia, where 80% of...

Many stakeholders, including authors, editors, librarians and funding agencies, have an interest in reliable assessments...

Negotiations leading up to an international climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol in...

This paper presents the analysis of user satisfaction with a web-based system that enables users...

Publication patterns of 79 forest scientists awarded major international forestry prizes during 1990–2010 were compared...

Completely updated and expanded new edition of this widely cited book, Modelling Forest Growth and...

As part of its program of ‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ (ERA), the Australian Research...

Thirty-seven products were labelled to indicate embodied carbon emissions, and sales were recorded over a...

After 15 years, it is timely to review the 4-year bachelor degree in forestry offered...

A review of current literature offers a basis for forecasting some future trends in forest...

The balance between facilitation and competition is likely to change with age due to the...

Australia's Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists has been highly effective in advancing policy solutions for...

An annual trade deficit in Australia for forest products of approximately $2 billion (Aus$), predominantly...

Three equations predicting height H = β1(t − 0.5)0.5, diameter D = β2(H − 1.3)/ln...

The Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden plantation estate in north-eastern NSW and south-eastern Queensland is significantly expanding...

There is increasing recognition in the field of natural resource management that transformative adaptation to...

Rapid land-use change arising from incentives for afforestation has created tensions in rural communities previously...

The ISI journal impact factor (JIF) is based on a sample that may represent half...

Calibration of the self-thinning frontier in even-aged monocultures is hampered by scarce data and by...

What the report is about

Private Native Forests are a dominant part of the landscape...

Empirical observations suggest that in pure even-aged forests, the mean diameter of forest trees (D,...

Assessments of genetic variation in wood properties are difficult and expensive to carry out. As...

An expert ranking of forestry journals was compared with Journal Impact Factors and h-indices computed...

Different types of models have been developed and applied to address various problems and issues...

A review of forestry education based on literature and a survey of 186 foresters reveals...

Forest planning and management concepts can sometimes be difficult to grasp. Games provide an effective...

The Community Rainforest Reforestation Program (1993-2000) was an attempt to create healthy vegetated catchments that...

Mixed species plantations are often promoted as being environmentally preferable to monocultures, but are rarely...

About 2% of English-language literature on plantations deals with mixed-species plantations, but only a tiny...

The capacity of rainforests to recover from logging disturbance is difficult to model due to...

Changes in national forest areas during 1990-2000 are contrasted with other variables to illustrate correlations...

Growth stress in 9-y-old plantation-grown Eucalyptus dunnii was assessed by measuring longitudinal growth strain. Strain...

The profitability of uncontrolled logging can be a significant obstacle to sustainable forest management, especially...

This paper introduces the concept of a landholder typology as a means for targeting non-industrial...

A global forest convention has been advocated for about 15 years, but progress is slow...

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future...

A brief synthesis of milestones in forest growth modelling helps to establish research topics for...

FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System, is a framework to facilitate quantitative modelling...

International calls for sustainable development advocate that forest management should be carried out in a...

FLORES (the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System) was initially constructed by 50 people during...

Participatory modelling can be a useful process to encourage critical examination of livelihood options and...

The Simile programming language provides a powerful and relatively easy to use medium for developing...

ZimFlores (version 4) is the outcome of a participatory modelling process and seeks to provide...

Concern about the rate at which the world's forests are being depleted is wide-spread. Recent...

Three Peruvian flood plain forests adjacent to the Ucayali river were sampled using nine 1...

Maquira coriacea is a commercial tree species growing throughout the Amazon flood plain forests. Densities...

Forest dynamics was studied from 1993 to 1997 for individuals > 10 cm DBH in...

Three peruvian flood plain forests adjacent to the Ucayali river were sampled using nine one...

Structure and floristic composition of small trees and shrubs (1.5 m height to 10 cm...

Robert Costanza presents four compelling visions of the future, but the language he uses to...

Two commercial laser dendrometers were tested under controlled and field conditions, and contrasted with alternative...

Incentives intended to stimulate better land use practices often don't work as intended, and can...

Concern over the management of the world's forests is becoming a hot topic, and no...

PLANTGRO can provide estimates of plant and tree growth under a wide range of conditions...

TROPIS, the Tree Growth and Permanent Plot Information System, contains five elements: (1) a network...

A new method is proposed for estimating vitality or growth potential for saplings of Scots...

Effective model evaluation is not a single, simple procedure, but comprises several interrelated steps that...

The world is moving towards knowledge-based societies. Economies are globalizing. The global public goods value...

Technology will help to address the challenges for sustainable forestry in the 21st century. Some...

Forest growth models are one of several important prerequisites for sustainable management. The complexity of...

The concepts of sustainable original harvest (SOH) and sustainable disturbance harvest (SDH), and simple indices...

Commercial timber harvesting commenced in the tropical rainforests of north Queensland in 1873 and ceased...

Informed plantation management requires a good database, since the quality of information depends on the...

Use-values have been advocated as a tool to compare the value of not just individual...

Model evaluation should include qualitative as well as quantitative examinations of the model. The qualitative...

Successive inventories of a silvicultural experiment in terra firme rain forest within the Tapajós National...

Tropical forests may have many species, indeterminate ages, and a wide range of growth habits...

Point sampling, or sampling with probability proportional to size (PPS), is an efficient technique often...

Biomass dynamics were studied in isolated relict stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) on...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Whole Stand Models -- 3. Size Class Models -- 4....

Although logging ceased in the tropical rainforests of north Queensland following their World Heritage Listing...

Many attempts to reverse deforestation in the tropics have failed because they addressed symptoms rather...

Timber harvesting from the tropical rainforests of north Queensland ceased following their inscription on the...

Help your readers, referees, editor and yourself by careful attention to detail. The summary should...

Reliable estimates of site productivity are essential for improved predictions of timber yields and for...

Permanent sample plots (PSPs) provide the basis for growth models and thus determine the quality...

A two-stage model predicts the recruitment (i.e., the number of stems reaching or exceeding 10...

Pairwise F-tests provided an efficient approach for aggregating large numbers of species into a manageable...

A single growth model can provide both deterministic and stochastic predictions which are compatible. Change...

Permanent sample plots provide the basis for growth modelling, yield prediction and sustained yield management,...

Horne and Hickey (1991) raised some matters which may warrant further clarification. Although about 50%...

The deterioration of merchantable trees over time is often assumed to be negligible in growth...

Mortality functions for north Queensland rain forests. Subjective a priori grouping of tropical rain forest...

A computer program creates permuted neighbourhood designs for second generation seed orchards which may include...

This paper refutes the Keto et al. proposition that the Queensland selection logging system is...

New tree volume equations are given for slash pine in south-east Queensland. The equations estimate...

An analysis of data from 212 permanent sample plots provided no evidence of any decline...

Regression analysis was used to develop a relationship between Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper data and...

Modelling selection harvesting in tropical rain forests. Long term yield estimates for natural forests require...

Site form, the expected height of a 25 cm d.b.h.o.b. tree predicted from the stand...

A deterministic growth model for uneven-aged monospecific stands of cypress pine is presented. It is...

Calculation of timber yields from north Queensland rainforests indicate that the long term average yield...

More then two hundred volume equations for plantation species used by the Queensland Department of...

This note deals with the characteristics of a satisfactory predominant height volume equation, and suggests...

Equations are given which estimate (1) tree height, (2) height to any specified diameter, (3)...

Equations are developed to determine volume to any height or diameter limit, expressed as a...

Volume equations are given for small hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghammii Ait. ex D. Don), Caribbean...