Effects of skidder passes and slope on soil disturbance in two soil water contents

R Naghdi, A Solgi - Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering: Journal for …, 2014 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Skidding operations induce changes in soil physical properties, which have the
potential to impact soil sustainability and forest productivity. Our objective was to investigate …

Combined effects of traffic intensity, skid trail slope, skidder type, and soil moisture content on soil degradation in the Hyrcanian forest of Iran

A Solgi, M Lotfalian, AA Rafiei, E Marchi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Skidding operations affect soil physical properties, which may impact soil sustainability and
forest productivity. While the relationship among harvest machine traffic, slope gradients …

Combined effects of skidding direction, skid trail slope and traffic frequency on soil disturbance in north mountainous forest of Iran

A Solgi, R Naghdi, PA Tsioras, U Ilstedt… - Croatian Journal of …, 2017 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Harvest traffic with heavy equipment causes damage to forest soils. Whereas
increased soil damage has been reported with increasing harvest equipment traffic and on …

Soil disturbance caused by ground-based skidding at different soil moisture conditions in Northern Iran

R Naghdi, A Solgi, EK Zenner, PA Tsioras… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Skidding operations induce considerable and wide spread soil disturbance. It is unclear how
much additional damage is caused by increased soil moisture content at the time of …

Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions

S Sadeghi, A Solgi, PA Tsioras - International Journal of Forest …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Machine traffic during wood harvesting causes damage to forest soils. Whereas increased
soil damage has been associated with increased traffic frequency and soil water content, the …

Soil compaction and porosity changes caused during the operation of Timberjack 450C skidder in northern Iran

A Solgi, R Naghdi, PA Tsioras, M Nikooy - Croatian Journal of Forest …, 2015 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Skidding by means of heavy forestry machinery can affect soil physical properties.
We assessed the effects of ground based skidding on soil bulk density and total porosity …

Soil disturbances due to machinery traffic on steep skid trail in the north mountainous forest of Iran

R Naghdi, I Bagheri, R Basiri - Journal of Forestry Research, 2010 - Springer
A study was conducted to investigate the effects of skid trail slope and traffic levels on soil
disturbances at two soil depths (0–10 and 10–20 cm). The treatments were set at four traffic …

[PDF][PDF] Recovery of soil bulk density, porosity and rutting from ground skidding over a 20-year period after timber harvesting in Iran

S Ezzati, A Najafi, MA Rab, EK Zenner - Silva Fennica, 2012 - researchgate.net
Ground-based skidding can have detrimental effects on soil properties trough soil profile
disturbance and compaction that can persist for decades. We investigated the recovery of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of ground-based skidding impacts on the horizontally rate and extent of soil disturbance along the margin of the skid trail

A Solgi, A Najafi, S Ezzati, M Ferencik - Annals of forest science, 2016 - Springer
Key message Skidding operations significantly influenced soil physical properties up to a 2-
m distance from the wheel ruts in a forest ecosystem. The most significant changes in soil …

Ground-based skidder traffic changes chemical soil properties in a mountainous Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest in Iran

A Jaafari, A Najafi, EK Zenner - Journal of Terramechanics, 2014 - Elsevier
Increased soil compaction following harvest traffic is an inroad for adverse changes in soil
biological properties and processes, soil microbial activity, bacterial communities, and …