The foundation of our research continues to be field studies examining the effects of silvicultural treatments applied during stand establishment (e.g., soil tillage, vegetation management, fertilization) and in established stands (e.g., thinning, fertilization, woody vegetation control) on stand growth and nutrition.

Since 1970, FPC members have established over 350 installations of 28 “regionwide” studies in the southeast US, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. Studies are focused on a few important questions that are more effectively answered by members cooperating rather than competing. Most studies examine several silvicultural treatments, providing an opportunity to better understand interactions among treatments. All studies include multiple installations across a range of soil/site types where treatments are replicated at least twice on each site. Data from these studies provide the basis for estimating responses to silvicultural treatments, developing prescription guidelines, and parameterizing growth models.

Use the Regionwide Catalog to access documents and data corresponding to each regionwide study.