Exploring new frontiers in forecasting forest growth, yield and wood property variation

Abstract

• Key messageModern forest managers operate in a world characterised by increasing variability in multiple factors impacting forest productivity, survival and product quality. Being able to predict, as accurately as possible, how forests will develop in the future is perhaps of more importance than ever before. At an international IUFRO conference held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in September 2018, researchers and managers came together to present research and discuss multiple facets of this large and critical area of forest science.