Multiaged Silviculture: Managing for Complex Forest Stand Structures

Provides an up-to-date reference on flexible management concepts and approaches for complex, multiaged stands Emphasizes the ecosystem values of these complex stands in addition to focusing on the quantitative measures of their regulation Serves as both a up-to-date reference book and an advanced text Written by a world-renowned specialist 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-870306-8
• Editorial: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.
• Encuadernacion: Tela
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 28/08/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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