🌲📊 Optimizing large-diameter Chinese fir cultivation
This JFR study develops a site-specific growth model to improve productivity, timber quality, and rotation planning across subtropical China.
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Interaction-inclusive GAMs with tensor product smooths cut stem taper RMSE by 52.3% vs additive-only GAM—surpassing Kozak-II benchmark and ML models for Chinese fir.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/forres-0026-0022
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Shuotian Lai et al. estimated the mass loss and release rates of carbon and nutrients (including nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium and magnesium) during the first year of #ChineseFir #LitterDecomposition.

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