Tree Recruitment
Benchmark Value
Scoring Curve
This curve shows how a field measurement for this indicator would score across all available benchmark forms in this context.
Evidence & Context
A landowner must ensure that the minimum stand stocking (as determined by the percentage of stocked plots specified in Table B) has been reached within 36 months of a regeneration event... Table B: Minimum percentage of stocked plots... Western Hardwood: 55%
Percentage of circular sample plots of 10 square meters (radius 1.79 meters) that must be classed as stocked. A plot is stocked if any part is under the canopy of an existing tree, contains at least one viable seedling, or contains advanced growth of an upper canopy species.
Statutory minimum post-harvest stocking level required in dry inland Western Hardwood ecosystems.
This represents the statutory minimum post-harvest stocking level required in dry inland Western Hardwood ecosystems.
Sources (1)
Private Native Forestry Code of Practice for Cypress and Western Hardwood Forests
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Additional references from the underlying research that informed this benchmark.
Trust for Nature EcoThinning Brochure: Canʼt see the forest for the trees? Improving tree density for habitat
View SourceEcological Thinning Guide: Environmental Protection Works on Regulated Rural Land
View SourceForest Management Options for Private Landowners
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Guidelines for Assessing Regeneration and Stocking: Private Native Forestry Code of Practice Guideline No. 1
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Guidelines for Sustainable Forestry on Private Lands in NSW
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