Comparing the characteristics of boom-corridor and selectively thinned stands of Scots pine and birch

Young, dense forest in Finland and Sweden urgently need to receive first thinning. In such stands, conventional selective thinning methods make the harvester work time consuming and, thus, costly. To make small-sized trees economically competitive as raw material for bioenergy and biorefining, new h...

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Main Authors: Yrjö Nuutinen, Jari Miina, Timo Saksa, Dan Bergström, Johanna Routa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society of Forest Science 2021-01-01
Series:Silva Fennica
Online Access:https://www.silvafennica.fi/article/10462