Measuring Trees and Forests, 2nd Edition

Measuring Trees and Forests, 2nd Edition

by M S Philip, Honorary Reader, Department of Forestry, University of Aberdeen, UK

Pub Date: January 1994
Paperback
336 pages

Main Description
Forest mensuration provides data on aspects of length, mass and time of areas of forest, individual trees or parcels of felled timber. Such quantitative information is vital to sellers, buyers, planners, managers and researchers within forestry.
This book is a revision of a successful text originally published in 1983 but written for students in Africa. The new edition is international in scope, and has also been changed and updated to reflect recent advances, particularly with respect to biomass and fodder measurement, sampling with unequal probabilities and growth modelling. The book covers both the theory and practice of forest mensuration and includes a number of worked examples of calculations. It is a basic textbook for students of forestry and will also be of value to practising foresters.

Main Contents
• Measurements
• Measuring single trees
• Measuring tree crops
• Forest inventory
• Statistical principles in forest inventory
• Site assessment
• Forest growth mo