Claim · model-written summary
Average merchantable branchwood volume across 106 felled trees was 28.602% of extracted stemwood volume.
- Taxon
- treese0
- Outcome
- average merchantable branchwood volumee0
- Value
- 28.602%e0
- Qualifier
- 106 treese0
- Comparator
- total extracted stemwood volumee0
Not reportedDirection
Verbatim
e0“the overall average merchantable branchwood volume was found to be 28.602% of the total extracted stemwood volume from the 106 trees”
Title
PETER KESSELS DADZIE American Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 2013. doi:10.11648/j.ajaf.20130102.12
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Merchantable branchwood volume in Pterygota macrocarpa was 2.302% of extracted stemwood volume.
- Observation Merchantable branchwood volume in Khaya spp. was 63.841% of extracted stemwood volume.
- Observation Using the branchwood was estimated to conserve about 6 hectares of forest land.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that branchwood is sufficient for commercial lumber production to supplement stemwood and reduce forest depletion.