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Forest development models have been used to predict growth and yield for a long time. Yield tables, for example, have been optimised to predict the yield of pure even-aged stands on the basis of long-term observations from experimental forest plots. However, forests in Switzerland cover a broad ecological gradient and forest structures are diverse, with several even- and uneven-aged stand types that can include various species mixtures. Given such diverse forest ecosystems, we predict harvesting potentials and forest management reference levels using the Swiss National Forest Inventory-based individual-tree growth simulator MASSIMO.
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Stadelmann, G. et al. (2019). Forest Development Model MASSIMO. In: Fischer, C., Traub, B. (eds) Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19293-8_17
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