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Volume 21 Number 3 Year 2012

21 articles in this issue 

S. Leal,V. B Sousa,H. Pereira

Cork oak (Quercus suber L.) wood has a potential for high value uses because of its strength and aesthetic properties but one obstacle is the lack of knowledge of the wood-water relations. Variations in wood equilibrium moisture content, density and dimen... see more

Pags. 355 - 363  

J. A. Domínguez Núñez,D. Muñoz,R. Planelles,J. M. Grau,F. Artero,A. Anriquez,A. Albanesi

Inoculation of mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobacteria in plants can improve their growth and physiological status, which could be particularly important for agricultural and forestry plants used for the revegetation of arid areas. Prosopis juliflora is a for... see more

Pags. 364 - 372  

P. Martínez-Álvarez,S. Rodríguez-Ceinós,J. Martín-García,J. J. Diez

Replacement of native forest with plantations of other species can have important consequences over the ecosystem. Some of these changes have been widely studied, but very little information is available about what happen with fungal communities and speci... see more

Pags. 373 - 382  

M. J. Diamantopoulou,R. Özçelik

Efficient management of timber resources and wood utilization practices require accurate and versatile information about important characteristics of forest resources for evaluating the numerous management and utilization alternatives for timber resources... see more

Pags. 383 - 397  

M. Pita,S. Casas,J. Herrero,C. Prada,R. García

In Spain, Game Reserves (GR) are territorial public hunting management units that cover 3.5% of the country and ~ 10% of the Natura 2000 Network. The first GR were established in 1966 and by 2011 there were 49. Their primary purposes were to promote wild ... see more

Pags. 398 - 404  

I. Aranda,J. Rodríguez-Calcerrada,T.M. Robson,F.J. Cano,L. Alté,D. Sánchez-Gómez

Limitations to diffusion and biochemical factors affecting leaf carbon uptake were analyzed in young beech seedlings (Fagus sylvtica L.) growing in natural gaps of a beech-wood at the southern limit of the species. Half of the seedlings received periodic ... see more

Pags. 405 - 417  

F. Perez-Rodriguez,A. Rojo-Alboreca

We present an example of the application of the AHP decision-making approach to forest management, by use of MPC© 2.0 software. The example considered is that of a forest services company interested in buying a timber harvester. The company had preselecte... see more

Pags. 418 - 425  

M. Zhang,J. Zhu,Q. Yan

Pinus koraiensis Siebold & Zucc. (Korean pine), the dominant tree species in the mixed broadleaved Korean pine forests (regional climax), is severely restricted by its regeneration failure. To determine the effects of light regimes on P. koraiensis regene... see more

Pags. 426 - 438  

J. V. Mora,M. del Rio,A. Bravo-Oviedo

In a forestry context, modelling stand development over time relies on estimates of different stand characteristics obtained from equations which usually constitute a multivariate system. In this study we have developed a stand growth model for even-aged ... see more

Pags. 439 - 445  

J. J. Gorgoso,A. Rojo,A. Cámara-Obregón,U. Diéguez-Aranda

The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of the Weibull, Johnson’s SB and beta distributions, fitted with some of the most usual methods and with different fixed values for the location parameters, for describing diameter distributions in eve... see more

Pags. 446 - 459  

M.E. Eugenio,R. Martin-Sampedro,E. Revilla,J.C. Villar

The aim of this work is to study the reinforcement capacity of pulps obtained from Hesperaloe funifera using a simple and low energy consumption process (chemi refiner mechanical pulping) once they are added in different percentages to recycled pulps from... see more

Pags. 460 - 467  

Y. Shan,P. Bettinger,C. Cieszewski,W. Wang

We describe here an example of applying particle swarm optimization (PSO) — a population-based heuristic technique — to maximize the net present value of a contemporary southern United States forest plan that includes spatial constraints (green-up and adj... see more

Pags. 468 - 480  

D. Bezos García,J. María Lomba,P. Martínez-Álvarez,M. Fernández,J. J. Diez

Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg and O’Donnell (1998) is the causal agent of Pitch Canker Disease (PCD) in Pinus species, producing damage to the main trunk and lateral branches as well as causing branch dieback. The disease has been detected recently in nor... see more

Pags. 481 - 488  

P. M. López Bernal,G. E. Defossé,C.P. Quinteros,J.O. Bava

In the province of Chubut in Patagonia, Argentina, Nothofagus pumilio forests (locally known as lenga), are managed through selective cuts, which imply the opening of canopy gaps. This management scheme is carried out without taking into consideration the... see more

Pags. 489 - 497  

J. S. Lazarevic,N. D. Keca,A. B. Martinovic

Seedling mycorrhization acts as an efficient tool for improving the quality of seedlings. In this study, the effectiveness of Suillus granulatus, originating from Pinus heldreichii forests (Montenegro), to produce containerized ectomycorrhizal seedlings o... see more

Pags. 498 - 507  

L. López,R. Villalba,M. Peña-Claros

To determine the annual periodicity of growth rings in seven tree species from a tropical moist forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a fire scar was used as a marker point to verify the annual nature of tree rings. The number of tree rings formed between the 19... see more

Pags. 508 - 514  

C. Romeralo Tapia,L. Botella,O. Santamaría,J. Diez

Mitoviruses have been found in several forest pathogens (i.e. Cryphonectria parasitica, Gremmeniella abietina), and because they have been shown to reduce the virulence of host fungi there is a growing interest in studying their use as a biocontrol. This ... see more

Pags. 515 - 525  

F. Crecente-Campo,U. Dieguez-Aranda,R. Rodriguez-Soalleiro

Individual-tree basal area and height increment models were developed with data from 130 permanent plots of Pinus radiata D. Don located in Galicia (northwestern Spain). Mixed-models techniques were used for model fitting. Covariates acting at tree and st... see more

Pags. 538 - 542  

S. P. Faias,J. H. N. Palma,S. M. Barreiro,J. A. Paulo,M. Tomé

In the last decades there has been an increasing number of forest models developed for the main species of the Portuguese forest. Forest models support management decisions by predicting long term stand development under alternative scenarios and taking i... see more

Pags. 543 - 548  

P. Koulelis

The forest products trade deficit in Greece is a characteristic of the national forest sector over time. Greek imports of forest products are more than exports in order to cover domestic consumption. However, since its accession to the EU in 2001 Greece h... see more

Pags. 549 - 554