Multiaged Silviculture Managing For Complex Forest Stand Structures [Repost]

Multiaged Silviculture: Managing For Complex Forest Stand Structures by Kevin Ohara
English | October 28, 2014 | ISBN: 0198703074 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 7.98 MB
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.