Date
8-4-2022 12:00 AM
Poster Abstract
In the Central Hardwood Region, the quantity and quality of hardwood timber critically depend on forest management decisions made by landowners. We fill a key gap in hardwood management by building a spatially explicit thinning model for black walnut to guide the first pre-commercial thin under user defined planting density, pre-establishment seedling survival and post establishment crop tree choices. We fmd that growth and yield of individual trees is influenced by multiple synergistic choices made during the pre-establishment and postestablishment phase. Later, we link our model with the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to project stand attributes under the impact of future thinning and harvest decisions. \Ve demonstrate a framework that could guide investments in hardwoods on private lands based on sound scientific evidence and tools that pinpoint forest management options over the plantation life cycle.
A Post Establishment Analysis of Various Thinning Decisions for Black Walnut Plantations
In the Central Hardwood Region, the quantity and quality of hardwood timber critically depend on forest management decisions made by landowners. We fill a key gap in hardwood management by building a spatially explicit thinning model for black walnut to guide the first pre-commercial thin under user defined planting density, pre-establishment seedling survival and post establishment crop tree choices. We fmd that growth and yield of individual trees is influenced by multiple synergistic choices made during the pre-establishment and postestablishment phase. Later, we link our model with the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to project stand attributes under the impact of future thinning and harvest decisions. \Ve demonstrate a framework that could guide investments in hardwoods on private lands based on sound scientific evidence and tools that pinpoint forest management options over the plantation life cycle.
Comments
2022 FNR Poster Competition, Graduate Research, 2nd Place [tie]