Tree adaptive growth (TAG) model: a life-history theory-based analytical model for post-thinning forest stand dynamics.

Background: Understanding stand dynamics is essential for predicting future wood supply and associated ecosystem services for sustainable forest management. The dynamics of natural stands can be characterized by age-dependent growth and yield models. However, dynamics in managed stands appear somewhat different from that of natural stands, especially with difficulties in explaining the phenomenon of post-thinning overcompensation, based upon some long-term observations.

Modelling the stand dynamics after a thinning induced partial mortality: A compensatory growth perspective.

Introduction: With increasing forest areas under management, dynamics of managed stands have gained more attention by forest managers and practitioners. Improved understanding on how trees and forest stands would respond to different disturbances is required to predict the dynamics of managed stand.s.

Endocrine assessment, chemotherapy, nonsurgical treatment, and rehabilitation for osteoporotic spine fractures: WFNS spine committee recommendations.

Introduction: We reviewed the endocrine assessment, chemotherapy, and rehabilitation of the osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVF) to create recommendations for the disease.

Evidence Acquisition: A PubMed and Medline search between 2011 and 2021 was conducted using key words. Case reports, experimental studies, papers other than the English language, and unrelated studies were excluded.

Detecting Compensatory Growth in Silviculture Trials: Empirical Evidence From Three Case Studies Across Canada.

Compensatory growth (CG) appears common in biology and is defined as accelerated growth after experiencing a period of unfavorable conditions. It usually leads to an increase in biomass that may eventually equal or even surpass that of sites not experiencing disturbance. In forestry, with sufficient time the stand volume lost in a disturbance such as a thinning operation could match or even exceed those from undisturbed sites, respectively called exact and overcompensation.