Development of a segregation method to sort fast-grown Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden plantation trees and logs for higher quality structural timber products

Key message

A method to segregate trees and logs of planted Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden has been developed, showing that accounting for wood quality during the process of segregation and sorting of timber resources allows for the recovery of structural timber of the desired quality.

Keywords
Eucalyptus plantations; Stiffness; Acoustic wave velocity; Non-destructive techniques; Segregation; Wood quality

Publication
Balasso, M., Hunt, M., Jacobs, A. et al. Development of a segregation method to sort fast-grown Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden plantation trees and logs for higher quality structural timber products. Annals of Forest Science 79, 9 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01122-2

Data and/or Code availability
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Handling Editor
Jean-Michel Leban