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: Received: 19 July 2021 / Approved: 20 July 2021 / Online: 20 July 2021 (09:56:34 CEST)
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: Received: 31 July 2021 / Approved: 2 August 2021 / Online: 2 August 2021 (13:28:23 CEST)
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Kärenlampi, P.P. Two Sets of Initial Conditions on Boreal Forest Carbon Storage Economics. Preprints2021, 2021070439. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202107.0439.v1
Kärenlampi, P.P. Two Sets of Initial Conditions on Boreal Forest Carbon Storage Economics. Preprints 2021, 2021070439. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202107.0439.v1
Kärenlampi, P.P. Two Sets of Initial Conditions on Boreal Forest Carbon Storage Economics. Preprints2021, 2021070439. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202107.0439.v1
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Kärenlampi, P.P. (2021). Two Sets of Initial Conditions on Boreal Forest Carbon Storage Economics. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202107.0439.v1
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Abstract
Two sets of initial conditions are used in the investigation of capital return rate and carbon storage in boreal forests. Firstly, a growth model is applied in young stands as early as the inventory-based model is applicable. Secondly, the growth model is applied to observed wooded stands. Four sets of thinning schedules are investigated in either case. First, the capital return rate is aspired without any restriction. Second, the number of thinnings is restricted to at most one. Third, thinnings are restricted to the removal of only trees thicker than 237 mm. Fourth, commercial thinnings are omitted. The two sets of initial conditions yield similar results. The capital return rate is a weak function of rotation age, which results in variability in the optimal number of thinnings. Reducing the number of thinnings to one increases timber stock but induces a capital return rate deficiency. The deficiency per excess volume unit is smaller if the severity of any thinning is restricted by the removal of large trees only. Omission of thinnings best applies to spruce-dominated stands with stem count less than 2000/ha. Restricted thinning intensity applies to deciduous stands and dense pine stands.
Keywords
capital return rate deficiency; expected value; carbon storage; carbon rent
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Forestry
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