Mechanized harvesting of eucalypt coppice for biomass production using high mechanization level;Visoko mehanizirano pridobivanje šumske biomase iz eukaliptusovih panjača

Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-24

  Picchio, Rodolfo ^a   Sirna, Alessandro ^a   Sperandio, Giulio ^b   Spina, Raffaello ^a   Verani, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chipper; Energetic balance; Forest plantation; Forwarder; Harvester; Operating costs; Work productivity

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; FORESTRY; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CENTRAL ITALY; CHIPPER; ENERGETIC BALANCE; EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS; FOREST PLANTATION; FORWARD; MECHANISATION; MECHANIZED HARVESTING; WORK PRODUCTIVITY;

OPERATING COSTS;

BEETLE; BIOMASS; COPPICE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY BALANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; HARVESTING; MACHINERY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

CHIPPERS; FORESTRY; HARVESTERS; ITALY; MACHINERY; OPERATING COSTS; PLANTATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY;

ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84866251952     PISSN: 18455719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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