{"id":6920,"date":"2026-05-19T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:26:40","slug":"modeling-crown-width-and-canopy-cover-in-quercus-suber-l-stands-from-forest-management-equations-to-3pg-compatible-formulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2026\/05\/19\/modeling-crown-width-and-canopy-cover-in-quercus-suber-l-stands-from-forest-management-equations-to-3pg-compatible-formulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling crown width and canopy cover in Quercus suber L. stands: from forest management equations to 3PG-compatible formulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><span style=\"color: #0d5c06;font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Research paper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/26-05-19_Jorge-C.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6922 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/26-05-19_Jorge-C-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/26-05-19_Jorge-C-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/26-05-19_Jorge-C-640x467.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/26-05-19_Jorge-C.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>Key message<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This study provides new equations to estimate crown width and percent crown cover of cork oak (<i>Quercus suber\u00a0<\/i>L.), helping forest managers understand forest structure and making informed decisions on understory management and thinning operations. These equations can either be used as standalone solutions or help adapt existing tools, such as the Physiological Processes Predicting Growth (3PG) model, thereby supporting better decisions to protect Mediterranean woodlands facing environmental changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nStand structure; Competition effects; Montado; 3PG model; Cork oak<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-026-01331-z'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nJorge, C., Amaral Paulo, J. &amp; Tom\u00e9, M. Modeling crown width and canopy cover in\u00a0<i>Quercus suber\u00a0<\/i>L. stands: from forest management equations to 3PG-compatible formulations.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a083, 15 (2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01331-z\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01331-z<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><br \/>\nThe datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available in the ZENODO repository at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.17425134\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.17425134<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nValentine Lafond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research paper Key message This study provides new equations to estimate crown width and percent crown cover of cork oak (Quercus suber\u00a0L.), helping forest managers understand forest structure and making informed decisions on understory management and thinning operations. These equations can either be used as standalone solutions or help adapt existing tools, such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}