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¹Forest Resource Management Department, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.

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Forest managers show slight to fair agreement when selecting trees for thinning. Agreement is higher with low thinning than crown thinning, indicating a need for more training in Continuous Cover Forestry practices.

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Area of Science:

Forestry science
Ecological management
Quantitative ecology

Background:

Tree selection in forest management is complex and influenced by numerous factors.
Previous literature suggested high agreement among foresters in tree selection, a notion this study investigates.
Marteloscope experiments provide a controlled environment to study human decision-making in forest management.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantify the level of agreement among foresters when applying low and crown thinning methods.
To explore factors influencing agreement in tree selection.
To examine relationships between agreement measures and forest structure characteristics.

Main Methods:

Analysis of data from 36 marteloscope experiments across Britain.
Application of multivariate statistics, specifically Fleiss' kappa, to assess inter-rater reliability.
Comparison of agreement levels between low and crown thinning methods.

Main Results:

General agreement in tree selection among raters was found to be slight to fair, significantly lower than in comparable medical studies.
Agreement was substantially higher in low-thinning experiments compared to crown-thinning experiments.
Forest structure characteristics did not explain the observed levels of agreement, but conformity increased with stem diameter complexity.

Conclusions:

Current agreement levels in tree selection for British forestry are lower than often assumed, necessitating enhanced training, particularly for crown thinning.
Crown thinning, a key method for Continuous Cover Forestry, requires further standardization and training due to lower rater agreement.
While forest structure complexity correlates with conformity, it doesn't fully explain agreement variability, highlighting the importance of human factors in forest management decisions.