Silviculture Information on the World Wide Web
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Quantitative Tools
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This page describes Silviculture information on the web.
Quantitative Tools
Growth Models
North America
- Forest Vegetation Simulator, USDA Forest Service, Forest Management Service Center.
- ORGANON is an individual tree growth model developed for Southwest Oregon and the Western Willamette Valley of Oregon.
- Central States TWIGS 3.0
- Software from Mississippi State University, College of Forest Resources.
- Models at the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, Division of Forestry, University of California at Berkeley, CA
- BC Ministry of Forests Software British Columbia, Canada.
- ASPEN A Circumboreal Growth and Yield Model for Populus tremuloides and P. tremula.
- RPGrow$ a Red Pine Growth and Analysis Spreadsheet for the Lake States
- Conifers A Young stand model for northern California and Southwest Oregon
Europe
- SYMFOR Silviculture and Yield Management for Tropical Forests.
- BWIN 3.2, Forest Growth Model for Northwest Germany
- The Growth Simulator SILVA (Model description in German Language)
Regeneration Models
- ACORn, A Comprehensive Ozark Regeneration Simulator.
- Systum-1, Growth and Yield Simulator for Young Mixed-Conifer Stands, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Young Stand Modeling Project
- RVMM, The Regional Vegetation Management Model, in the Coast Range and Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington, USA.
Forest-Insect Models
- Gypsy Moth Modelling Programs USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV.
Spreadsheets
- Gingrich Stocking Diagram Spreadsheet, The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Density Management Diagram Spreadsheet, The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Uneven Size Distribution Spreadsheet to calculate "desired numbers of trees" for a given residual basal area and q. The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
- TSTRAT: A Program for Quantifying Vertical Forest Structure.
Forestry Unit Conversions
Allometric Equations
- Biopak is a menu-driven package of computer programs for personal computers that calculates the biomass, area, height, length, or volume of plant components (leaves, branches, stem, crown, and roots) using existing prediction equations.
Decision Support Systems
- SILVAH a computer tool for making silvicultural decisions in hardwood stands of the Allegheny Plateau and Allegheny Mountain region.
- Spectrum: An Analytical Tool to Support Ecosystem Management, USDA Forest Service
- EMDS: a knowledge based system for ecological assessment, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Visualization Tools
- Cooperative for Forest-Systems Engineering, USDA Forest Service and University of Washington.
Combined Systems
- Silviculture Laboratory, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- NED is a collection of software products being developed by the USDA Forest Service. The NED software is intended to aid resource managers develop goals, assess current and future conditions, and produce sustainable management plans for forest properties.
Agroforestry Models
- Simile: the visual modelling environment for ecological, biological and environmental research
- FLORES: Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System