BioSum User Guide

The DRAFT BioSum User's Guide provides a brief overview of the framework and extensive, step-by-step documentation of the BioSum workflow. Follow these steps to create a BioSum project, calculate travel times, generate FVS input databases, load FVS outputs, evaluate management effect, calculate the costs of and wood yield and economic return of multi-decade silvicultural trajectories, and build logic to identify the best silviculture on every acre and project the outcomes.

 

New users of BioSum are strongly encouraged to download and read the entire user guide. Please note that this DRAFT and partial version of the BioSum User's Guide is provided as a convenience to users of the Beta version of this software. We are gradually improving this documentation with respect to completeness, accuracy and accessibility with the goal of publishing it later in 2024. The current version contains known gaps and inaccuracies, particularly where software functions are evolving.

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