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Tree crowns, unmerchantable tops, stumps, and roots form a huge reserve of renewable raw material. Compared with merchantable stems, some 50% additional biomass is potentially available from these unutilized tree components in silviculturally managed forests and, if undersized trees and defected stem parts are included, a considerably higher percentage in overmature, unmanaged forests.
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Hakkila, P. (1989). Technical Properties of Residual Tree Components. In: Utilization of Residual Forest Biomass. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74072-5_3
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