title: Forest Growth and Yield Modeling
author: Aaron R. Weiskittel
description: <b>Forest Growth and Yield Modeling</b> synthesizes currentscientific literature and provides insights in how models areconstructed. Giving suggestions for future developments, andoutlining keys for successful implementation of models the bookprovides a thorough and up-to-date, single source reference forstudents, researchers and practitioners requiring a current digestof research and methods in the field.
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  Forests 2020, 11, 344; doi:10.3390/f11030344 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/forests 
  Article 
  Evaluation of Individual Distance-Independent 
  Diameter Growth Models for Japanese Cedar 
  (Cryptomeria japonica) Trees under Multiple 
  Thinning Treatments 
  Keiko Fukumoto *, Tomohiro Nishizono, Fumiaki Kitahara and Kazuo Hosoda 
  Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization,  
  1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan; nishizo@ffpri.affrc.go.jp (T.N.);  
  bunsho@ffpri.affrc.go.jp (F.K.); khosoda@ffpri.affrc.go.jp (K.H.) 
  * Correspondence: kfukumoto@ffpri.affrc.go.jp; Tel.: +81-029-829-8313 
  Received: 24 January 2020; Accepted: 18 March 2020; Published: 19 March 2020 
  Abstract: Understanding the tree growth process is essential for sustainable forest management. 
  Future yields are affected by various forest management regimes such as thinning; therefore, 
  accurate predictions of tree growth are needed under various thinning intensities. This study 
  c