Assessing the land expectation value of even-aged vs coppice-with-standards stand management and long-term effects of whole-tree harvesting on forest productivity and profitability

Table 1 Output parameters for even-aged sessile oak

Age	G (m². ha^-1)	N	g (m²)	D (cm)	H (m)	N_max	RDI
15	4.4	3447	0.00	4.0	5.7	16305	0.22
24	9.2	1907	0.00	7.8	9.3	5237	0.37
36	12.7	1155	0.01	11.8	13.2	2668	0.42
42	14.0	718	0.02	15.8	15.6	1757	0.46
51	15.4	585	0.03	18.3	18.0	1246	0.48
60	16.6	464	0.04	21.3	20.2	936	0.50
70	17.8	333	0.05	26.0	22.4	731	0.50
78	19.3	297	0.06	28.7	23.9	568	0.53
87	19.0	225	0.08	32.8	25.4	457	0.54
99	22.8	211	0.11	37.0	27.3	379	0.56
108	23.0	174	0.13	41.0	28.6	317	0.55
117	22.6	141	0.16	45.1	29.9	270	0.55
129	23.2	116	0.20	50.5	31.5	232	0.55
138	24.3	106	0.23	54.0	32.7	201	0.55
147	24.4	93	0.26	57.8	33.9	175	0.54
159	25.7	83	0.31	62.8	35.4	152	0.54
168	24.7	70	0.35	67.0	36.6	122	0.53
180	26.8	65	0.41	72.5	38.2	115	0.56
195	32.1	65	0.49	79.3	40.1	101	0.64
210	37.5	65	0.58	85.7	42.1	88	0.74

G, basal area of the stand; N, number of trees per hectare in the stand; g, basal area of the tree; D, tree diameter; H, tree height; N_max, theoretical maximum number of trees obtained from the self-thinning equation; RDI, relative density index

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