Claim · model-written summary
Wood quality changes from early thinning were insignificant on less fertile sites.
- Taxon
- Scots pine
Pinus sylvestrist0 - Treatment
- early thinninge1
- Outcome
- wood qualitye1
- Qualifier
- less fertile sitese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“For less fertile sites, the changes were insignificant”
e1“early thinning somewhat reduced wood quality for stands in fertile sites”
t0“Scots pine”
Title
An integrated assessment approach to optimal forest bioenergy production for young Scots pine stands
Tianjian Cao; Kari Hyytiäinen; Henna Hurttala; et al. Forest Ecosystems 2015. doi:10.1186/s40663-015-0043-6
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Conventional forest management remained optimal for sparse Scots pine stands.
- Observation Energy harvest occurred only when profitable.
- Intervention effect Energy harvest led to lower financial returns.
- Observation Compulsory energy wood harvesting was optimal for denser stands.
- Association At 4 % interest, higher energy wood prices postponed energy wood harvesting.
- Intervention effect Early thinning somewhat reduced wood quality on fertile sites.
- Recommendation The authors recommend against constraining energy wood harvest to profitable harvests.
- Recommendation The authors recommend a flexible policy for first thinning based on stand density.