Optimal road spacing of cable yarding using a tower yarder in Southern Austria

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 409-416

  Ghaffariyan, Mohammad Reza ^a   Stampfer, Karl ^a   Sessions, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Optimum road spacing; Production; Road density; Yarding

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONTANE FOREST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION;

AUSTRIA; STYRIA;

EID: 77952322661     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-009-0346-7     Document Type: Article

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