Assessing the role of the harvester within the forestry-wood chain

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 77-84

  Chiorescu, Sorin ^a,b   Grönlund, Anders ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY-WOOD CHAINS; TIMBER; WOOD PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGGING (FORESTRY); RAW MATERIALS; SAWMILLS;

HARVESTERS;

MILETINAE;

EID: 0034830469     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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