{"title":"Traditional Farmlands for Tree Species Conservation in Benin","authors":"Bokon Alexis Akakpo, Elie Antoine Padonou, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09556-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09556-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136157832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Farmers' Livelihood Capital on Non-agricultural Income Based on the Regulatory Effect of Returning Farmland to Forests: A Case Study of Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County in China","authors":"Xiaoliang Shi, Sibo Zhao, Shuaiyu Lu, Tielong Wang, Xiaowei Xu","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09554-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09554-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stanimir Stoilov, Andrea Rosario Proto, Delyan Oslekov, Georgi Angelov, Salvatore Francesco Papandrea
{"title":"Forest Operations Using a Combi–Forwarder in Deciduous Forests","authors":"Stanimir Stoilov, Andrea Rosario Proto, Delyan Oslekov, Georgi Angelov, Salvatore Francesco Papandrea","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09552-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09552-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the last decade, technological innovation in the forest operations sector has allowed levels of mechanization alternative to agricultural tractors and animal logging. These machines are used to load logs from skid roads and move logs to the next pile, until the load space is fully loaded. Fortunately, in recent years the development of new technological progresses in forestry mechanization created an alternative operation on ground-based system with the use of a combi-forwarder for wood forwarding. These innovative machines have the advantage that only one machine can perform logs bunching and primary transport. Infact, pull stems by the winch from the stump to the road, after they have been cross-cutted by chainsaws, it loads by the forwarder’s crane the logs and transports them to the landing, where they are unloaded with the crane in piles. The aim of the present study was to analyse the operational time consumption, to estimate the productivity of the combi–forwarder with a built-in single-drum winch in beech stands evaluating the forwarding and winching distances, log’s volume transported per turn by the machine, as well as the extracting costs. The study was conducted in low-intensity shelterwood cuttings in beech forest, located in Western Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria. The mean productivity of the combi–forwarder was 7.09 m 3 PMH − 1 and 6.11 m 3 SMH − 1 close to that of the cable skidders and forwarders in similar conditions. The net costs for the studied combi–forwarder were calculated of 25.33 € per productive machine hour and 4.13 € per m 3 . The variable costs (70%) have a leading role, followed by labour costs (22%) and fixed costs (8%). The use of a combi-forwarders facilitates chainsaw operators, as some of the operations are carried out at the roadside in better working conditions: flat terrain and support of the crosscutting phase. The results from the study are useful to introduce and to integrate the combi–forwarders with shelterwood systems and to achieve economic and environmental efficiency of timber harvesting in deciduous forests.","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135856259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesse Caputo, B. J. Butler, M. Markowski-Lindsay, P. Catanzaro
{"title":"A Survival Analysis of Family Forest Owners in the USA: Estimating Life Expectancy and 5-Year Survivorship","authors":"Jesse Caputo, B. J. Butler, M. Markowski-Lindsay, P. Catanzaro","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09551-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09551-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ranking Research and Development Needs of Silvicultural Operations for a Plantation Forestry Cooperative","authors":"Zimbili Bonisiwe Sibiya, C. Häggström, B. Talbot","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09548-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09548-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. A. Cyamweshi, S. Kuyah, A. Mukuralinda, J. Ngango, S. R. Mbaraka, J. D. Manirere, W. C. Muthuri
{"title":"Farming with Trees for Soil Fertility, Moisture Retention and Crop Productivity Improvement: Perceptions from Farmers in Rwanda","authors":"R. A. Cyamweshi, S. Kuyah, A. Mukuralinda, J. Ngango, S. R. Mbaraka, J. D. Manirere, W. C. Muthuri","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09547-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09547-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46676200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Absence Make the Heart Grow Less Fond? Spatial Proximity Partially Predicts Family Forest Landowner Engagement","authors":"J. Caputo, S. Snyder","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09549-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09549-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45353736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Forest Owner Attitudes Toward Oak Forests and Management in the Central and Eastern U.S.","authors":"Emma M Sass, BJ Butler, J. Caputo, AL Robillard","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09545-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09545-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41362856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One Size Does not Fit all: Constraints and Opportunities for Small-Scale Forestry in British Columbia, Canada","authors":"R. Riggs, C. Gaston, J. Langston, J. Sayer","doi":"10.1007/s11842-023-09544-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-023-09544-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48983,"journal":{"name":"Small-Scale Forestry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45814895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}