An assessment of vegetation and canopy structure of moderately exploited natural forest area in Yagirala forest reserve

Monday, December 10th, 2007

W M P S B Wahala,Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
W A J M De Costa, Department of Crop Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. and
D M S H K Ranasinghe, Department of Forestry and Environmental Science
Study assessed the vegetation composition and structure and the forest canopy [...]

Predicting the optimal rotation length of Teak plantations using a simulation model

Monday, December 10th, 2007

L H P Gunaratne and T N Subramanium
Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management,
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
The traditional problem in Forest Economics has been mainly dealt with the estimation of optimal rotation length for sustainable management. However, given the limitation of the availability of time series data on growth and management in forest plantations [...]