Comparison of short-wood forwarding systems used in Iberia

Silva Fennica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-94

  Spinelli, Raffaele ^a   Owende, Philip M O ^b   Ward, Shane M ^b   Tornero, Maximiano ^c  

^a Harvesting Reserch Group   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Servicios Forestales SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cut to length harvesting; Eucalyptus; Forwarding; Site disturbance

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUTTING; EXTRACTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY; WOOD;

FORESTRY TRAILERS; SHORT-WOOD FORWARDING SYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

COST; DISTURBANCE; EXTRACTION METHOD; HARVESTING; PRODUCTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 1842588537     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.437     Document Type: Article

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