Combined Effects of Skidding Direction, Skid Trail Slope and Traffic Frequency on Soil Disturbance in North Mountainous Forest of Iran

Harvest traffic with heavy equipment causes damage to forest soils. Whereas increased soil damage has been reported with increasing harvest equipment traffic and on increasing slope gradients, it is unclear how much soil damage is caused by different directions of skidding. We examined the effects o...

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Main Authors: Ramin Naghdi, Petros A. Tsioras, Ulrik Ilstedt, Ali Salehi, Mehrdad Nikooy, Ahmad Solgi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry 2017-01-01
Series:Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering
Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/257416