Background: Prior research in 2005 and 2008 estimated planted forest investment returns for a set of countries and included some natural forest species in a few countries. This research has extended those analyses to a larger set of countries and focused on plantation species, for seven years. This research serves as a "benchmarking" exercise that helps identify comparative advantages among countries for timber investment returns, as well as other institutional, forestry, and policy factors that affect investments. Furthermore, it extends the analyses to examine the effects of land prices, environmental regulations, and increased productivity on timber investment returns, as well as comparing timber returns with traditional stock market returns.
Las funciones de perfil fustal y la distribución de productos en Plantaciones Forestales Comerciales (PFC) es esencial para cuantificar y valorar las existencias. El objetivo fue ajustar un sistema compatible de ahusamiento-volumen comercial (d-Vc) en PFC de Eucalyptus urophylla en Huimanguillo, Tabasco, México. Con información de 175 árboles de clones medidos en 2007, 93 clones diferentes evaluados en 2014, y 459 árboles provenientes de semilla medidos en 2007, se estimaron los parámetros estadísticos simultáneamente mediante máxima verosimilitud. El modelo generalizado de Fang y Bailey presentó en los tres casos el mejor ajuste, mostrando una descripción en d y Vc mayor del 96% y diferencias agregadas menores al 5% en Vc. Los tres ajustes son diferentes estadísticamente, lo que sugiere que la forma del perfil de los árboles ha cambiado posiblemente al material vegetativo, el origen de la semilla o a las prácticas silvículturales empleadas.
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