Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10250598 | Forest Ecology and Management | 2010 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
In general the examined simulators seem to work well in circumstances where natural mortality is low or does not exist, as happens to be the case in intensively managed commercial forests. Instead, in unmanaged, unhealthy or non-homogeneous forests the estimates are less reliable. Usually the models tend to underestimate the natural mortality, but with the combined simulator and the birch strata the mortality was also often highly overestimated. It seems necessary to make both the growth and mortality models more adaptable to varying conditions in the future. Also the models for the deciduous trees require improvement.
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Authors
Sanna Härkönen, Antti Mäkinen, Timo Tokola, Jussi Rasinmäki, Jouni Kalliovirta,