Productivity standards for harvesters and processors in Italy

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 226-235

  Spinelli, Raffaele ^a   Hartsough, Bruce R ^b   Magagnotti, Natascia ^a  

^a CNR IVALSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; PRODUCTIVITY;

INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS; PRODUCTIVITY MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY STANDARDS; SCENARIO PREDICTIONS; SPECIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT MODELS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 78149238416     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13073/0015-7473-60.3.226     Document Type: Article

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