J. D. Sauerländer's Verlag, Bad Orb

One of the current requirements of the British forest industry is for updated yield forecasting that is flexible enough to encompass both existing and new forest management methods. In a review of modelling related research projects for the Forestry Commission MASON (1999) stated that “Great Britain has missed a whole generationof management-level growth and yield models by focussing too much on process growth models”.

To fill this gap a growth modelling project was launched in 2001 at Bangor and the late Professor GÜNTER WENK indicated his interest in exploring the applicability of his growth modelling approach to data from Wales. This was followed by a series of discussions that eventually led to the development of a single tree growth model prototype (POMMERENING and WENK, 2002; POMMERENING, 2005; MURPHY, 2008) to which Professor WENK frequently contributed as external advisor and friend.

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