Ecological Silviculture

2020-05-13
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Ecological Silviculture

Author: Brian J. Palik

Publisher:

ISBN: 1478638478

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Page: 343

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Classical silviculture has emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models-models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological legacies, and allow time to take its course in shaping stands. These methods, dubbed "ecological forestry," have been successfully implemented by foresters for decades managing a wide variety of forestlands. Ecological silvicultural strategies protect threatened and rare species, sustain biological diversity, and provide habitat for game and non-game species, all while providing timber in profitable ways.

Ecological Silviculture

2020-05-15
 |  Technology & Engineering
Ecological Silviculture

Author: Brian J. Palik

Publisher: Waveland Press

ISBN: 9781478645238

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 343

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Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models—models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological legacies, and allow time to take its course in shaping stands. These methods, dubbed “ecological forestry,” have been successfully implemented by foresters for decades managing a wide variety of forestlands. Ecological silvicultural strategies protect threatened and rare species, sustain biological diversity, and provide habitat for game and non-game species, all while providing timber in profitable ways.

Ecological and Silvicultural Strategies for Sustainable Forest Management

2001-10-08
 |  Technology & Engineering
Ecological and Silvicultural Strategies for Sustainable Forest Management

Author: T. Fujimori

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9780080551517

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 412

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Recognizing the increased interest in forest management world wide, this book addresses the current knowledge gap by defining sustainable forest management, clarifying methods by which ecological knowledge can be applied and how traditional silvicultural methods can be improved. Sustainable forest management involves the enhancement of various aspects of forest functions such as conservation of biodiversity, conservation of soil and water resources, contribution to the global carbon cycle as well as wood production. To establish ecological and silvicultural theories to enhance these functions harmoniously, recognizing the relationship between stand structures and their functions is essential. This volume presents target stand structures for aimed forest functions in relation to stand development stages, as well as ecological and silvicultural methods to lead and maintain them. Ecological and silvicultural strategies are discussed, both on stand and landscape levels, and from local to international levels in temperate and boreal forest zones.

Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests

2004-03-30
 |  Technology & Engineering
Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests

Author: RG Florence

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

ISBN: 9780643102521

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 413

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This classic forest management text examines the ecology and silviculture of eucalypts in forests and plantations in Australia and overseas. The book presents approaches to the formulation of ecologically sustainable forest practices through a more fundamental understanding of Eucalyptus. The 14 chapters of the book are divided into three sections covering: the ecological background to silvicultural practice; the regeneration and continuing development of the forests; and silvicultural practice, including the current practices within the eucalypt forests.

A Critique of Silviculture

2012-09-26
 |  Science
A Critique of Silviculture

Author: Klaus J. Puettmann

Publisher: Island Press

ISBN: 9781610911238

Category: Science

Page: 208

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The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing needed wood products. A Critique of Silviculture offers a penetrating look at the current state of the field and provides suggestions for its future development. The book includes an overview of the historical developments of silvicultural techniques and describes how these developments are best understood in their contemporary philosophical, social, and ecological contexts. It also explains how the traditional strengths of silviculture are becoming limitations as society demands a varied set of benefits from forests and as we learn more about the importance of diversity on ecosystem functions and processes. The authors go on to explain how other fields, specifically ecology and complexity science, have developed in attempts to understand the diversity of nature and the variability and heterogeneity of ecosystems. The authors suggest that ideas and approaches from these fields could offer a road map to a new philosophical and practical approach that endorses managing forests as complex adaptive systems. A Critique of Silviculture bridges a gap between silviculture and ecology that has long hindered the adoption of new ideas. It breaks the mold of disciplinary thinking by directly linking new ideas and findings in ecology and complexity science to the field of silviculture. This is a critically important book that is essential reading for anyone involved with forest ecology, forestry, silviculture, or the management of forested ecosystems.

Multiaged Silviculture

2014
 |  Science
Multiaged Silviculture

Author: Kevin Laughlin O'Hara

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780198703075

Category: Science

Page: 227

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This book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide. Over recent decades, forest science and management have tended to emphasize plantation silviculture. Whilst this clearly meets our wood production needs, many of the world's forests need to be managed far less intensively and more flexibly in order to maintain their natural ecosystem functions together with the values inherent in those processes. Developing multiaged management strategies for these complex forest ecosystems represents a global challenge to successfully integrate available science with sustainable management practices. Multiaged Silviculture covers the ecology and dynamics of multiaged stands, the management operations associated with regeneration, tending, and stocking control, and the implications of this strategy on production, genetic diversity, and stand health. It is primarily aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of forestry and silviculture, but will also be of relevance and use to all professional foresters and silviculturists.

Silviculture

1998-07
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Silviculture

Author: Louise H. Foley

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

ISBN: 9780788171604

Category:

Page: 258

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Reviews, discusses, & shares silvicultural research information & management experience critical for implementing ecosystem management on National Forest System lands & other Federal & private forest lands. Papers presented address the following general topics: Silviculture -- Past & Present; Defining Objectives of Management; Ecological Classification & Mapping; Management Data Needs; Applying What We Know; Costs, Benefits, & Tradeoffs of Ecosystem Management; Building National Forests/Research Partnerships; & Implementation -- Personnel, Budget, Organization, & Training. Illustrated.

The Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed-Species Forests

1992-03-31
 |  Nature
The Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed-Species Forests

Author: M.J. Kelty

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 0792316436

Category: Nature

Page: 314

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Stand Structure and Dynamics: Overview of Principles; Stand Structure and Dynamics: Case Studies;Productivity of Mixed-Species Stands; Silviculture and Management of Mixed-Epecies Stands.