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Everything about Felling
Process of cutting down trees
Felling is the process of cutting down trees, an element of the task of logging. The person cutting the trees is a lumberjack. A feller buncher is a machine capable of felling a single large tree or grouping and felling several small ones simultaneously. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FellingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A real-time intelligent lithology identification method based on a dynamic felling strategy weighted random forest algorithmInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Streamflow responses to afforestation with Eucalyptus grandis and Pinus patula and to felling in the Mokobulaan experimental catchments, South AfricaCited 194 times
- Go sideways: LoggingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: LumberjackA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of fell
Noun The act by which something is felled.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Streamflow responses to afforestation with Eucalyptus grandis and Pinus patula and to felling in the Mokobulaan experimental catchments, South Africa
Carbon and nitrogen in coniferous forest soils after clear-felling and harvests of different intensity
Nitrogen Transformations Following Tropical Forest Felling and Burning on a Volcanic Soil
Immediate effects of four different felling methods on mature boreal spruce forest understorey vegetation in southern Finland
Effects of salvage logging and sanitation felling on bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) infestations
Attacks on living spruce trees by the bark beetle Ips typographus (Col. Scolytidae) following a storm‐felling: a comparison between stands with and without removal of wind‐felled trees
Attacks by Ips typographus and Pityogenes chalcographus on Windthrown Spruces ( Picea abies ) During the Two Years Following a Storm Felling
Long-term growth and water balance predictions for a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forest catchment subject to clear-felling and regeneration
🆕 Influential since 2022
A real-time intelligent lithology identification method based on a dynamic felling strategy weighted random forest algorithm
Conceptual Modelling of Two Large-Scale Mine Water Geothermal Energy Schemes: Felling, Gateshead, UK
Interpreting wind damage risk–how multifunctional forest management impacts standing timber at risk of wind felling
The Impact of Body Posture on Heart Rate Strain during Tree Felling
Tree felling by beaver promotes regeneration in riparian woodlands whilst increasing resource availability for deer
📚 Books worth reading
Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)John Dickson Carr · 1935
The hollow manJohn Dickson Carr · 1935
The Blind Barber (Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)John Dickson Carr · 1934
The Crooked HingeJohn Dickson Carr · 1938
The Mad Hatter Mystery (Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)John Dickson Carr · 1933
To Wake the Dead (Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)John Dickson Carr · 1938
The Case of the Constant SuicidesJohn Dickson Carr · 1941
The Black SpectaclesJohn Dickson Carr · 1939
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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