Abstract
Forest growth and yield models are tools designed to provide forest managers with quantitative information on plantation development dynamics, the influence of various silvicultural manipulations like vegetation control, thinning, and fertilization, and the potential quantity and quality of forest products. Growth and yield models have a long history of development and use with increasing attention on modeling intensively managed plantations. Based on their construction and assumptions, growth models are of three primary types, namely (1) statistical; (2) mechanistic; and (3) hybrid. Both spatially-dependent and spatially-independent versions of these different model types have been used to model intensively management plantations. This chapter will explore these different modeling approaches, their ability to represent key silvicultural activities, and provide suggestions on the development and use of growth models for forest plantation management.
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