期刊
FORESTS
卷 13, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f13050650
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Namibia; savannah; silvopasture; QSM; pruning; biomass; TLS
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01LL1803A]
- BMBF [01LG1201M]
- Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art
- University of Freiburg
This study assessed the effects of branch wood harvesting in a silvopastoral system in the African Savannah ecoregion using terrestrial LiDAR technology. The results showed that branch harvesting can provide a significant amount of wood biomass while retaining the original tree structures. The choice of harvesting treatment depends on practitioners' interests, but this study provides useful tools for decision making.
Agroforestry systems hold potential for wood and tree biomass production without the need of felling trees. Branch wood harvesting provides access to considerable amounts of lignocellulosic biomass while leaving the tree standing. Aiming at alternatives for wood provision, we assessed the actual woody structure of a silvopastoral system in the African Savannah ecoregion, utilising terrestrial LiDAR technology and quantitative structure models to simulate branch removals and estimate harvesting yields. In addition, the stand structure and harvested wood were examined for the provision of four types of assortments meeting local needs, and operational metrics for each treatment were derived. The stand had large variability in woody structures. Branch harvesting interventions removed up to 18.2% of total stand volume, yielded 5.9 m(3) ha(-1) of branch wood, and delivered 2.54 m(3) ha(-1) of pole wood quality, retaining on average more than 75% of the original tree structures. Among the most intense simulations, a mean of 54.7 litres (L) of branch wood was provided per tree, or approximately 34.2 kg of fresh biomass. The choice of an ideal harvesting treatment is subject to practitioners' interests, while the discussion on aspects of the operation, and stand and tree conditions after treatment, together with outputs, assist decision making. The partitioning of tree structures and branch removal simulations are tools to support the design of tending operations aiming for wood and tree biomass harvesting in agroforestry systems while retaining different functional roles of trees in situ.
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