- 行业: Forest products; Government
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Increased soil density resulting from the packing effect of machines moving over the soil. Compaction disturbs the soil structure and can cause decreased tree growth, increased water runoff, and soil erosion.
Industry:Forest products
Alteration or destruction of the soil structure by mechanical forces such as in shearing, compression, or tearing.
Industry:Forest products
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Also known as the Southeast.
Industry:Forest products
Act of creating, within the limits of the existing stand, a uniform distribution of trees that provides optimum growing space for each tree by eliminating overcrowding. As a result, tree diameter growth is increased and the time required for the forest to reach harvestable size is decreased.
Industry:Forest products
Tree or mast on which rigging is hung for one of the many cable hauling systems.
Industry:Forest products
Group of similar individuals having a number of correlated characteristics and sharing a common gene pool. The species is the basic unit of taxonomy on which the binomial system has been established. The scientific name of a plant or animal gives the genus first and then the species as in Abies. Species is both the singular and plural form of the word.
Industry:Forest products
Ratio of the weight of a volume of material to the weight of an equal volume of water at a given temperature.
Industry:Forest products
