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CRC for Forestry - Management of Mechanised Forestry Operations: Churchill Workshop, Victoria, July 2010 / Mark Brown (MelbUni - Creswick), Martin Strandgard (MelbUni - Parkville), Brad Shuttleworth (Forestry Solutions - South Africa), Jon Dey (Forme Consulting) / GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo



A working technical event providing you with an overview and insights into managing KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) in mechanized forest harvesting, how to manage the information available from on-board computers, an overview of tools available to improve management of mechanized harvesting, and a visit to a research trial of harvesting management technology.




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Sawmilling Eucalyptus globulus: a Galician tradition

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Eucalyptus globulus: a noble wood from Galician planted forests (II)

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado Contact GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
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After depicting how the Eucalyptus planted forests of Galicia in Northern Spain have yielded over 1500 million € to tree growers in the last cultivation cycle, and having seen how this renewable source of one of the best wood fibers in the world for papermaking is also able to source high value wood for complementary industrial lines, we took on a trip to the Arousa Mussel Empire to see how the industrial acquaculture of Galician seafood is built on Eucalyptus globulus beams, and why over 10,000 jobs in the fisheries sector would not exist without Eucalyptus plantations.

Today we will keep walking along the timber ecosystem to show you how plantation grown E. globulus logs become sawntimber, and how those solidwood products keep generating added value and jobs, besides unique organic, renewable, recyclable and environmentally friendly shapes, colours and textures: we will start exploring the nobility of Galician eucalypts.

Galician Eucalyptus Globulus Sawn Timber Slabs and Planks / Tasmanian timber industry visits High Value Eucalyptus plantations, Eucalyptus sawmills and Mussel Acquaculture industrial Bateas in Galicia / Forestry Tasmania technical visit to Galicia / Forestry Tasmania, McKay Timber and Britton Timbers visit Galician HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez Eucalyptus globulus sawmill / Tabla y Tablon de Eucalipto de Galicia / Industria forestal de Tasmania visita plantaciones, aserraderos e industria acuicola del mejillon de batea de Galicia / Visita tecnica de Forestry Tasmania a Galicia / Industrilaes del aserrio de Australia McKay Timber y Britton Timbers visitan aserradero de eucalipto de HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez / GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 1: IFA President Dr. Peter Volker standing on plantation grown Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus) lumber grade logs at HVS Sawmill Woodyard (Galicia, Spain). The Tasmanian Floral Emblem has been milled for high value solidwood uses in Northern Spain for over 70 years. (Click image to enlarge)

It all starts with a wood log. That wonderful piece of a tree efficiently and naturally built from light, water and carbon recycled from soil and air. For the case of Northern Spain, such logs are sourced today from productive tree plantations established along the developing coastal Eucalyptus rainforest of Galicia during the 20th century. Wooden fruits of the tireless work of dozens of thousands of tree growers, landowners and silviculturalists, carried on voluntarily at their previously nearly treeless properties.

Galician Eucalyptus Globulus Sawn Timber Slabs and Planks / Tasmanian timber industry visits High Value Eucalyptus plantations, Eucalyptus sawmills and Mussel Acquaculture industrial Bateas in Galicia / Forestry Tasmania technical visit to Galicia / Forestry Tasmania, McKay Timber and Britton Timbers visit Galician HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez Eucalyptus globulus sawmill / Tabla y Tablon de Eucalipto de Galicia / Industria forestal de Tasmania visita plantaciones, aserraderos e industria acuicola del mejillon de batea de Galicia / Visita tecnica de Forestry Tasmania a Galicia / Industrilaes del aserrio de Australia McKay Timber y Britton Timbers visitan aserradero de eucalipto de HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez / GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 2: Galician plantation grown Eucalyptus globulus high value lumber grade log entering the sawmilling process at HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suárez Sawmill to become solidwood eucalypt made slabs and planks. The adopted Australian wonder trees roughly mean 50% of Galicia's yearly timber harvests and 25% of Spain's yearly timber harvests. (Click image to enlarge)

After the ancient oak nearly disappeared, King's Oak that built treasure fleets and ships of the line many moons ago, it was the prime time of pine.

Portuguese Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster ssp. atlantica) the softwood that arrived (again) and spread (again) in man made forests along the Northern coast, roughly at the same time the same tree crop started in Aquitaine. And Galician sawmillers and timberjacks adapted to it before the Age of Steam.

It would take some time until a new hardwood arrived, von Mueller's Prince of Eucalypts and a bit more until its cultivation for industrial timber supply purposes became noticeable. But, again, Galician sawmillers and timberjacks adopted it and adapted to it, this time aided by machines. Galician Eucalyptus sawmills were born.

Galician Eucalyptus Globulus Sawn Timber Slabs and Planks / Tasmanian timber industry visits High Value Eucalyptus plantations, Eucalyptus sawmills and Mussel Acquaculture industrial Bateas in Galicia / Forestry Tasmania technical visit to Galicia / Forestry Tasmania, McKay Timber and Britton Timbers visit Galician HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez Eucalyptus globulus sawmill / Tabla y Tablon de Eucalipto de Galicia / Industria forestal de Tasmania visita plantaciones, aserraderos e industria acuicola del mejillon de batea de Galicia / Visita tecnica de Forestry Tasmania a Galicia / Industrilaes del aserrio de Australia McKay Timber y Britton Timbers visitan aserradero de eucalipto de HVS - Hijos de Vicente Suarez / GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 3: Processing a plantation grown Galician Blue Gum log through HVS' bandsaw to obtain eucalypt wood slabs. After the initial cut the E. globulus slabs are reprocessed to obtain dimensional lumber. (Click image to enlarge)

Since then, plantation grown Eucalyptus trees have been a source of specialty lumber logs for conoisseurs. Their special timber properties, result of fast growing rates and competition for light, different to the same timber in its native forests, had to be learned an dealt with by experience in order to yield usable sawnwood with reasonable recovery rates.

Each log becomes a different world. Each wood cut a challenge. But it was done. Galician sawmillers and master carpenters, devoid of other easy locally sourced hardwood timber choices, succeeded where the Californian feverish Eucalyptus timber industry of the second Gold Rush era failed.

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Fig. 4: Eucalyptus globulus reprocessed slabs become dimensional lumber after re-sawing and finishing ("recanteado"). Besides direct uses as structural wood for housing inland, part of this Eucalyptus dimensional lumber is used to build the frameworks of Galician "Bateas" (Mussel & Oyster Farms) in the ocean. (Click image to enlarge)

Timber knowledge passed from generation to generation of sawmillers, today's examples as Hijos de Vicente Suárez Blanco, join more than 50 years of experience based wisdom on Eucalyptus globulus sawmilling and handcraft carpentry. Thanks to them, and others like them, Master Shipbuilders as Manuel Sánchez Torrado keep building wooden structures at dockyards, for immediate use in acquaculture. Thanks to them, and others like them, further value adding happens in Galicia, as finished slabs are also transformed into fine timber products by other local industrial lines.

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Fig. 5: Galician & Tasmanian sawmillers inspecting the finished product area of HVS sawmill, where plantation grown Eucalyptus globulus logs have been converted into high value sawn timber products for multiple uses. The organically grown and nearly handcrafted noble wood will keep generating added value after this step, for direct carpentry work and further industrial processing, to become many other Eucalyptus solidwood based products. (Click image to enlarge)

A whole economic ecosystem based on the most noble uses of timber has grown and flourished in the Northern coast of Iberia, at the same time the coastal Eucalyptus rainforest has developed.

Its flow of organic matter (wood fibres) runs up and down the industrial chains based on this timber, generating jobs at every stage for wood workers and their families. Generating wealth that is recirculated in rural economies and primary resource based economies along this man made timberbelt, the Nova Australia eucalypt planted forests.

Generating energy savings with each ton of standing timber, each ton of sawnwood and each ton of wood products you may or may not choose against other materials with mindbowling energy costs to be manufactured.

Tasmania timber industry visits High Value Eucalyptus plantations, Hijos de Vicente Suarez sawmill and reclaimed eucalypt timber uses after acquaculture industries in Galicia / Forestry Tasmania technical visit to Galicia / Australian sawmillers McKay Timber and Britton Timbers visit Galician Hijos de Vicente Suarez SL Eucalyptus globulus sawmill producing beams for mussel farms / Industria forestal de Tasmania visita plantaciones, aserradero Hijos de Vicente Suarez SL e industria acuicola del mejillon de Galicia / Visita tecnica de Forestry Tasmania a Galicia / Aserradores australianos visitan bateas de mejillon fabricadas con eucalipto / GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 6: The life cycle and CO2 storage lifetime of plantation grown Eucalyptus globulus timber used for building purposes ranks in the "well over 100 years" timespan in Galicia. Reclaimed and Fresh wood are used for fine grade building in both "old and new" styles, either as structural timber pieces or as unique visual treat. Fine carpentry expert examples, as Hijos de Vicente Suárez works, expand the possibilities for noble wood uses of Tasmanian Blue Gum timbers and the value adding process. (Click image to enlarge).

Same way as Eucalyptus virgin cellulosic fibres are recycled as paper is recycled creating a long term pool of stored CO2, and hence being an useful tool in the fight against climate change, Eucalyptus globulus solidwood products, for their longer lifetimes and continued recycling of uses once serving their primary prupose, are also a stored CO2 pool.

Each of these plantation grown eucalypt timber pieces contributes at once to slow down the harvest of native hardwood forests with high value for preservation in other areas of the world, which is a positive externality, and an example of positive environmental impact. Each solidwood piece contributes to more efficient energy saving processes for raw material production, as this wood is totally organic, and, as every type of wood, built by nature using solar energy, not by burning fossil fuels. Each Galician Blue Gum log and solidwood piece is a living proof of cultivated forests being capable of generating sustainable products and services, positive social impacts and positive environmental impacts. Remember that each time you may read eucalypt plantations are not sustainable, or that the "foreign trees" cannot bur harm your local ecosystems.


Acknowledgements

To Peter Volker (Forestry Tasmania), Glenn & Shawn Britton (Britton Timbers, Tasmania) and Tony Jaeger (McKay Timber, Tasmania) for stopping by in their discovery trip around the world after the Eucalyptus beyond Australia. To the Suárez siblings and their staff (Maderas Hijos de Vicente Suárez Blanco SL), Alfonso and his staff (Maderas Costiña SL) and Master Carpenter Manuel Sánchez and family (Astilleros Manuel Sanchez Torrado SL) for their hospitality and daily work at forest and sea. To Isabel Puentes (FEARMAGA - Galician Federation of Sawmillers and Timber Suppliers) and Juan Picos (Asociación Galega Monte - Industria) for their support and company during the Mussel Day. To the fishermen and seafood cultivators of Galicia, for making it possible. To the tree growers and silviculturalists of Galicia, for making it possible too. And, looking back to days past, let's not forget to thank Alfonso Ozores, Marquiss of Aranda and the House of Rubianes for thinking like a mussel. And let's not forget either to thank Rafael Areses, Forester and eucalypt planter extraordinaire, for thinking like a tree at the same time Navarro de Andrade did.


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Brazil Eucalyptus Laboratory: Modelling Productivity

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Eucalyptus Ecology & Environmental Sustainability : it is about Science

Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo

Stape JL, Binkley D, Ryan MG, Fonseca S, Loos RA, Takahashi EN, Silva CR, Silva SR, Hakamada RE, Ferreira JM de A, Lima AMN, Gava JL, Leite FP, Andrade HB, Alves JM, Silva GGC, Azevedo MR. (2010) The Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 1684-1694. (Click image to enlarge)


Eucalyptus crops: Tree Stocking and Wood Productivity / Plantaciones de eucalipto: densidad del arbolado y productividad de madera / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 1: BEPP (Brazilian Eucalyptus Potential Productivity) Field Forestry Laboratory: Different clonal Eucalyptus tree stocking areas are subject to variations of availability of light, water and nutrients to simulate different silvicultural practices, different cultivation areas along Brazil and different genotypes for Eucalyptus tree crops.


Eucalyptus Field Laboratory Design and Layout / Laboratorio Forestal del Eucalipto, Diseño Experimental / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 2: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: Different experimental designs are applied to the range of tree stocking plots in order to gain insight and be able to predict how and in which amounts do clonal Eucalyptus plantations use the available building materials (light, water, nutrients) to produce woody biomass in fast growing timber crops.


Nutrient and Water Cycles in Clonal Eucalyptus Plantations / Ciclos de agua y nutrientes en plantaciones clonales de Eucalyptus /Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 3: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: Modelling water and nutrient cycles in clonal Eucalyptus plantations is achieved by monitoring soil status before, along and after the cultivation cycle, plus designing and building on site water collection infrastructures. Water cycle balances can hence be studied, and variations depending on rainfall, canopy interception, trunk percolation, soil absorption and excess runoff can be measured and modelized. This can later be linked to different silvicultural practices, to predict the impacts of clonal Eucalyptus plantations and to refine cultivation techniques to achieve as sustainable production as possible.


Irrigation, Rainfall, Water Cycles and Growth Rates in Clonal Eucalyptus Plantations / Irrigacion, Precipitacion, Ciclo del Agua y Tasas de Crecimiento en Plantaciones Clonales de Eucalyptus / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 4: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: Modelling water and nutrient cycles and predicting growth rates in clonal Eucalyptus plantations. Different rainfall patterns or soil water availability ranges are simulated by artificial irrigation, allowing to expand the models, predictions and estimations to different cultivation areas of Brazil, different seasonal types, different soil types, different topographic conditions for clonal Eucalyptus timber crops.


Water Absorption, Transpiration and Water Use Efficiency in Clonal Eucalyptus Plantations / Absorcion, transpiracion y eficiencia en el uso del agua de las plantaciones clonales de Eucalyptus / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 5: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: FIBRIA's (Aracruz + Votorantim) staff installing water use monitoring sensors. Target: modelling Eucalyptus water use efficiency and its impact on growth rates. Individual tree water use studies are conducted by monitoring how, when and how much water (or "nutrient soup" if you preffer) is used by the trees to produce biomass.


Water Absorption, Transpiration and Water Use Efficiency in Clonal Eucalyptus Plantations / Absorcion, transpiracion y eficiencia en el uso del agua de las plantaciones clonales de Eucalyptus / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 6: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: Modelling Eucalyptus water use efficiency and its impact on growth rates. Subject to the range of variation in genotypes, tree stocking and water inputs, empirical monitoring of water use can allow an estimation of both growth rates for varied environments suitable for timber crops and of water consumption and impacts on water availability at catchment level.


Clonal Eucalyptus Plantations: Growth Rates and Biomass Carbon Sink Potential / Plantaciones clonales de Eucalyptus: Tasas de Crecimiento y potencial de almacenamiento de CO2 en biomasa / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 7: Brazilian BEPP Eucalyptus Field Laboratory: Modelling the carbon capture process in clonal Eucalyptus plantations. Eucalyptus timber crops convert solar energy, available water and soil mineral nutrients into organic, renewable, recyclable and carbon rich biomass. Part of that biomass becomes fiber or wood based products, thus temporary CO2 sinks of diverse lifetimes at once they are the basement for industrial timber production. Another part of that biomass becomes a permanent stock of stored CO2 in sustainably managed plantations. Yet another part of that biomass decays naturally along time and emits carbon, but at once returns mineral nutrients to the soil cycles, diminishing the need of external inputs of other fertiliser with a more noticeable carbon footprint. The emitted plus an impressive extra amount of CO2 is captured again by the trees to build biomass in continuous cycles making clonal Eucalyptus plantations become air purifiers and net carbon stockers, hence contributing twice to the fight against climate change.


Brazil Eucalyptus Field Laboratory, a long term R+D joint venture of Academic Research and Forestry Industry / Laboratorio Forestal de Eucalyptus de Brasil, un proyecto conjunto de I+D entre la Investigacion Academica y la Industria Forestal / Jose Luiz Stape (North Carolina State University), Dan Binkley (Colorado State University), Mike Ryan (USDA) et al / BEPP - Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production / BEPP - Proyecto de Modelizacion de la Productividad Potencial del Eucalipto: Influencia de la disponibilidad de agua, nutrientes y la homogeneidad del rodal en la produccion de madera / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig. 8: During the last 15 years, a joint research consortium of 5 universities (University of Sao Paulo – ESALQ, Universidade Federal da Bahía, Universidade Federal do Río Grande do Norte, Colorado State University and North Carolina State University), 8 Brazilian forestry corporations (Aracruz Celulose, Cenibra, Copener Florestal, International Paper do Brasil, Suzano Bahia Sul Celulose, Votorantim Celulose e Papel, Veracel Celulose and V & M Florestal) plus 4 governmental forestry research agencies (the Brazilian Institute for Forestry Studies & Research - IPEF, the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the USDA Forest Service; the Brazilian National Council for Scientific & Technological Development - CNPq; and the French Centre for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research & Development / CIRAD - France) has become one of the most impressive and world leading technical and scientific teams for fast growing plantation timber ecology modelling, and has produced an inmense wealth scientific data and evidence supporting decission making for an increasingly sustainable management of eucalypt cultivated forests. At once, thanks to them and many others in many countries, Eucalyptus timber plantations have become one of the best scientifically studied and monitored options for both timber production and carbon storage, supplying all concerned individuals with sound information able to unmask the propagation of Eucalyptus myths. Brazil: Ordem, e Progresso.


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Dan Binkley, Jean-Paul Laclau, Jose Luiz Stape & Michael G. Ryan (2010) Applying ecological insights to increase productivity in tropical plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 259, Issue 9, Productivity in Tropical Plantations, Pages 1681-1683, ISSN 0378-1127, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2010.01.023

Michael G. Ryan, Jose Luiz Stape, Dan Binkley, Sebastiao Fonseca, Rodolfo A. Loos, Ernesto N. Takahashi, Claudio R. Silva, Sergio R. Silva, Rodrigo E. Hakamada, Jose Mario Ferreira, Augusto M.N. Lima, Jose Luiz Gava, Fernando P. Leite, Helder B. Andrade, Jacyr M. Alves, Gualter G.C. Silva (2010) Factors controlling Eucalyptus productivity: How water availability and stand structure alter production and carbon allocation. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 259, Issue 9, Productivity in Tropical Plantations, Pages 1695-1703, ISSN 0378-1127, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2010.01.013

Dan Binkley, Jose Luiz Stape, William L. Bauerle, Michael G. Ryan (2010) Explaining growth of individual trees: Light interception and efficiency of light use by Eucalyptus at four sites in Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 259, Issue 9, Productivity in Tropical Plantations, Pages 1704-1713, ISSN 0378-1127, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.05.037

Robert M. Hubbard, Jose Stape, Michael G. Ryan, Auro C. Almeida, Juan Rojas (2010) Effects of irrigation on water use and water use efficiency in two fast growing Eucalyptus plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 259, Issue 9, Productivity in Tropical Plantations, Pages 1714-1721, ISSN 0378-1127, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.028

Auro C. Almeida, Anders Siggins, Thiago R. Batista, Chris Beadle, Sebastiao Fonseca, Rodolfo Loos (2010) Mapping the effect of spatial and temporal variation in climate and soils on Eucalyptus plantation production with 3-PG, a process-based growth model. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 259, Issue 9, Productivity in Tropical Plantations, Pages 1730-1740, ISSN 0378-1127, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.008



ResearchBlogging.orgBinkley, D., Laclau, J., Stape, J., & Ryan, M. (2010). Applying ecological insights to increase productivity in tropical plantations Forest Ecology and Management, 259 (9), 1681-1683 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.01.023

ResearchBlogging.orgRyan, M., Stape, J., Binkley, D., Fonseca, S., Loos, R., Takahashi, E., Silva, C., Silva, S., Hakamada, R., & Ferreira, J. (2010). Factors controlling Eucalyptus productivity: How water availability and stand structure alter production and carbon allocation Forest Ecology and Management, 259 (9), 1695-1703 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.01.013

ResearchBlogging.orgBinkley, D., Stape, J., Bauerle, W., & Ryan, M. (2010). Explaining growth of individual trees: Light interception and efficiency of light use by Eucalyptus at four sites in Brazil Forest Ecology and Management, 259 (9), 1704-1713 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.05.037

ResearchBlogging.orgHubbard, R., Stape, J., Ryan, M., Almeida, A., & Rojas, J. (2010). Effects of irrigation on water use and water use efficiency in two fast growing Eucalyptus plantations Forest Ecology and Management, 259 (9), 1714-1721 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.028

ResearchBlogging.orgAlmeida, A., Siggins, A., Batista, T., Beadle, C., Fonseca, S., & Loos, R. (2010). Mapping the effect of spatial and temporal variation in climate and soils on Eucalyptus plantation production with 3-PG, a process-based growth model Forest Ecology and Management, 259 (9), 1730-1740 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.008




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