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Since the approval of the last forestry law in 1987, commercial forestry activities in Uruguay had a great expansion. Planted surface currently reaches 1.053.693 hectares and covers 6.10% of the productive land area (MGAP-DIEA, 2021). Commercial forestry relies mostly on monocultural exotic tree plantations with Eucalyptus as the most widely planted genera (81%). Eucalyptus wood is mainly destined to cellulose pulp production, as round-wood and chips.Other destinations are solid wood for saw timber, panels and veneers production and wood for fuel (Boscana & Boragno, 2022).Until 2007, E. globulus was the most widely planted Eucalyptus species in Uruguay for pulp production, due to its several advantages in Kraft pulp manufacturing, including high pulp yields, high wood density, excellent fibre quality and desirable hand-sheet properties