plantation management

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• Adaptation strategies to manage risk in Australia’s plantations

  Predicted changes to Australia’s climate over the next one to three decades will affect management strategies for Australia’s Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata plantations.  This res... Read More

• Application of Multispectral Imagery to the Management of Pine Plantation Condition and Productivity Summary

  This project demonstrates the application of high resolution digital imagery for the assessment of plantation canopy condition and the potential benefits of incorporating this information othe... Read More

• Assessment of the causality of Essigella-ascribed defoliation of mid-rotation radiata pine and its national impact in terms of cost of lost wood production

  This study estimated the national cost of defoliation in terms of lost wood production including predicting future defoliation and identifying potentially susceptible stands using climatic or ... Read More

• Benchmarking the wood properties of radiata pine plantations: Tasmania - Summary Report

  This project sought to identify the major sources of variation in wood properties affecting structural lumber recoveries across Tasmania (within and between sites) in crops within 10 years of ... Read More

• Blue Gum Plantation Management System

  This project designed a software system to facilitate efficient and precise plantation management, and developed a computer-based system and associated biometry to assist with the planning and... Read More

• Climate Change and Australia’s plantation estate: Analysis of vulnerability and preliminary investigation of adaptation options

  Australia’s climate is predicted to change by 2030 with average temperatures increasing between 0.4 and 2oC, reductions in average rainfall in southern, southwest and much of eastern Australia... Read More

• Evaluation and Validation of Canopy Laser Radar Systems for Native and Plantation Forest Inventory: Summary Report

  Research into using Lidar technologies to characterise forest structure has increased rapidly. However, the use of such technologies to assist commercial forest inventory operations has not ye... Read More

• Fertilisation and forest health: preventing or offsetting biotic leaf loss in eucalypt plantations

  The project developed tools to be used by managers of Eucalyptus globulus plantations to prevent or offset the effects of defoliation events on plantation productivity. The role of fertilising... Read More

• Forest productivity optimisation system - A decision support tool

  Presented by Daniel Mendham, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Wednesday 3 July 11am - 12 noon EST About the webinar View project information: Forest Productivity Optimisation system – A decision ... Read More

• Forest Productivity Optimisation system – A decision support tool

  The web-based FPOS decision support tool allows plantation managers to explore the impacts of different management options, climate models and soil types on productivity and profitability of p... Read More

• Operational deployment of LiDAR derived information into softwood resource systems

  The project evaluated LiDAR based inventory solutions for softwood plantations in terms of information outcomes, technical feasibility and cost effectiveness.  The project demonstrated t... Read More

• Operational deployment of LiDAR in Australian softwood plantations

  LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) can deliver significant practical and economic advantages to those intensively managing pine plantations. The six largest pine plantation management organis... Read More

• Optimal use of genetics in deployment and tree breeding

  The Southern Tree Breeding Association (STBA) has developed the SEEDPLAN toolset to manage the vast amounts of complex information generated in tree improvement programs which select for econo... Read More

• Plantation Yield Regulation System PLYRS: A Computer Based System to Assist in the Management of Pinus radiata Plantations

  PLYRS is a modern, integrated forest management and yield prediction system that assists users in managing their plantation estate. Its primary function is to assist plantation managers in the... Read More

• Processing Pruned and Unpruned Eucalyptus globulus Managed for Sawlog Production to Produce High Value Products

  Processing trials were conducted in conventional mills using logs from plantation-grown Eucalyptus globulus to produce appearance-quality solid timber. The trees harvested were selected to rep... Read More

• Resource Evaluation for Future Profit: Part A - Wood Property Survey of the Green Triangle Region

  The project’s objectives were to demonstrate the value of resource evaluation tools that can predict future trends in structural grade recovery, using the Green Triangle region as the case stu... Read More

• Review of fertilizer use in Australian forestry

  This report reviews the history and current state of knowledge of fertiliser use in softwood and hardwood plantations in Australia, surveys current fertiliser use and strategies and compares t... Read More

• Sorting plantation Eucalyptus nitens logs with acoustic wave velocity

  This project evaluated Acoustic wave velocity (AWV) as a direct measure of wood stiffness using two age classes (8 years and 13–15 years) of Eucalyptus nitens. Standing trees and felled logs w... Read More

• The extent and causes of decline in productivity from first to second rotation blue gum plantations

  This project quantified changes in productivity of blue gum plantations between the first and second rotation, particularly in Western Australia. The research showed that well established fore... Read More

• The Impact of Growth Stress on Sawn Distortion and Log End Splitting on 32-Year-Old Plantation Blue Gum

  This project quantified the relationship between sawn timber distortion and log end splitting with growth strain measured at the surface of standing trees; investigated the impact of log end s... Read More