Researchers and forest managers interested in the study of the resin resource have difficulties in locating and accessing experimental data generated in previous projects.
This circumstance means the loss of precious research and management resources and the experimental data, obtained at the cost of significant technical and economic effort.
SustForest Resin Lab is a platform to share experimental and management data, facilitating both the offer of such data, as well as access to data generated by other agents and the possibility to request its use.
SustForest Resin Lab: A network of experimental and monitoring plots of the resin resource
- Category: Resins
- Themes: Knowledge transfer & communication
- Position in the value chain: R & D
- Type: Practice
- Scale: Continental
- Country: Spain
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- Keywords: resin harvesting, resinous forests, scientific network
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