New Zealand School of Forestry
Areas of Research
Biometry
- Augmenting forest growth models with edaphic and environmental variables
Biosecurity
- Application of Information Technology to wild animal management
- History of biosecurity management in New Zealand
- Biosecurity strategies, tactics and policy
- Biosecurity contingency planning
Conservation Biology
- Sustaining indigenous biodiversity within production systems including high country sheep farms and plantation forests
- Restoration of native ecosystems
- Conservation of threatened plant species
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Forest Ecology
- Stand dynamics in lowland podocarp forests
- Patterns of host specificity in mistletoes
- Ecology of mistletoes in beech forests
- Ecological limits to the sustained yield management of indigenous forests
Forest Harvesting
- Occupational health and safety in the logging industry
- The effect of site disturbance from harvesting on soil physical properties and its impact on forest productivity
Forest Management
- Sustainable forest management from social, economic and ecological perspectives on Maori land
- Estate simulation and optimisation of harvest scheduling
- Log allocation and optimisation of processing
Forest Soils
- Compaction, erosion and sedimentation following harvesting
- Impacts of harvesting on site productivity
- N nutrition of Douglas-fir
- Biosolids and soils
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Silviculture of Indigenous Forests (including Tropical Forests)
- Silviculture of New Zealand beech-podocarp forests
- Natural regeneration silviculture of humid tropical forests
- Mangrove forest silviculture
Silviculture of Plantations
- Decision support systems for plantation establishment
- Models sensitive to site management
- Biomass measurement with image analysis
- Clonal forestry and growth of improved breeds of radiata pine
Wood Science and Technology
- Wood quality assessment of clearwood
- Value recovery of structural timber from low grade material
- Timber drying and preservation
