Jin Huang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated financial returns and wood production costs in 2008 for the primary timber plantation species, including land costs, and found that returns for exotic plantations in almost all of South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Paraguay) were substantial.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Faustmann Formula was used to evaluate the effect of land prices, environmental regulations, and increased productivity on plantations' investment performance. But the authors focused on plantations in South America and did not examine the effects of other institutional, forestry, and policy factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated timber investment returns for 22 countries and 54 management regimes in 2017, for a range of global timber plantation species and countries at the stand level, using capital budgeting criteria, without land costs, at a real discount rate of 8%.

TL;DR: This paper used the U.S. Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Database to fit two growth models across the South and apply the four Hadley III climate scenarios developed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth assessment report to project future growth and site productivity on loblolly pine plantations.