Plantation Silviculture

Author : K.R. Shepherd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400944466

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Plantation silviculture by K.R. Shepherd Pdf

Plantations of a wide range of tree species have assumed an important place in our world, providing wood for industry, fuelwood and animal fodder, protection from adverse environments and for the soil, as well as amenity and aesthetically pleasing landscapes. silvicultural knowledge of this particular branch of forestry first developed in Europe more than two centuries ago but in many parts of the world is still in a process of rapid evolution as more and more plantations are established to meet specific needs. The first exotic tree species to be established in plantations in my own country were planted more than a century ago and, likewise, New Zealand has a long history of planting. Both countries have developed a vigorous and innovative approach to plantation practice, soundly based initially on European experience but gradually modified to meet the challenges of new environments, new markets, and changed economic circumstances. This book on plantation silviculture was begun some years ago when the lack of a suitable undergraduate text for teaching purposes became apparent. The present text is aimed essentially at this audience. Although I have drawn heavily on the experience of Australia and New Zealand, the principles outlined are applicable anywhere in the world where plantations are being grown and tended, from the United States and Scandinavia to India, South Africa or Brazil. The text should also serve as a useful reference to advanced students and practicing foresters, with the reference list providing an introduction to the literature on this subject.

Author : Peter Savill,Julian Evans,Daniel Auclair,Jan Falck
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590467

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Plantation Silviculture in Europe by Peter Savill,Julian Evans,Daniel Auclair,Jan Falck Pdf

Plantation Silviculture in Europe provides an up-to-date, succinct, and comprehensive overview of current European plantation forestry practices. Recognising that plantation silviculture today is no longer largely a question of how to grow large-scale industrial plantations, the authors have included chapters describing other, more diverse reasons for establishing trees. Forestry practices are set in the context of the science behind them and their environmental, social and policy frameworks. Concise and clear, this will be essential reading for forestry students and professionals alike. - ;As pressures to preserve natural forest resources have increased, plantation forestry and its study have gained in importance. Plantation Silviculture in Europe is an up-to-date, timely, and comprehensive exploration of the principles that underlie the planting and maintaining of forest resources. Based on the excellent reception of Savill and Evans' Plantation Silviculture in Temperate Regions (OUP, 1986), which was largely UK-based, the inclusion of two European authors ensures that the scope of this new book extends across the entire continent. Plantation Silviculture in Europe provides a thorough overview of the central aspects of conventional plantation forestry, covering site preparation, choice of species, establishment and maintenance, nutrition, spacing, thinning and pruning, and protection. In addition, it acknowledges the changing emphasis and increasing diversity of contemporary forestry, and includes chapters on community woodlands, urban forests, plantings for amenity and sport, and energy crops. Throughout, an attempt is made to set practices in the context of the ecological and biological forest processes which underpin them. Plantation Silviculture also incorporates discussion of the many environmental, social and policy issues that surround forestry today. Concise and clearly written, this will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate forestry students and forestry professionals alike. Likely to become the standard text throughout Europe, it also contains much material of relevance to foresters in North America, East Asia, and Australasia. -

Author : Peter S. Savill,Julian Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015010183005

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Plantation Silviculture in Temperate Regions by Peter S. Savill,Julian Evans Pdf

This up-to-date volume covers topics central to an understanding of plantation silviculture, distilling much of the scientific background accumulated since plantation forestry first became a significant form of land use in the 1920s. Focusing on the basic principles of silviculture, Savill and Evans discuss general aspects of the planting and maintenance of plantation forests, consider less well-known forms of silviculture, and outline methods to protect plantations from pests, wind, fire and fungi. Based on the authors' own wide experience, this informative study includes numerous references to primary and secondary sources, making it an excellent entry into the main body of silvicultural literature.

Author : Julian Evans,John W. Turnbull
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198509472

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Plantation Forestry in the Tropics by Julian Evans,John W. Turnbull Pdf

Development of planted forests in tropical and subtropical countries is accelerating to satisfy the ever-growing global demand for wood products. It is expected that within 20 years half of all wood fibre in the world will be sourced from plantations, of which more than half are in the tropics and subtropics. Active community involvement in tree planting as part of rural development is now widespread and welcome. Plantation Forestry in the Tropics provides an overview that sets plantation silviculture in the wider context of development processes and their social, environmental and ecological impacts. The structure and approach of previous editions have been retained but every chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated. Two new chapters, one on clonal forestry, the other on ecological restoration, have been added.

Author : Julian Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198542575

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Plantation Forestry in the Tropics by Julian Evans Pdf

This new edition has been completely revised to provide up-to-date accounts of silvicultural practices, rural development issues, and the wider role that tree-planting plays. The chapters on agroforestry and protection forestry have been virutally rewritten, while throughout the book theimportant place of social forestry is recognized.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Douglas fir
ISBN : MINN:31951D028890648

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Silviculture for Multiple Objectives in the Douglas-fir Region by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Douglas fir
ISBN : UCR:31210022825846

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Silviculture for Multiple Objectives in the Douglas-fir Region by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. W. West
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319018270

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Growing Plantation Forests by P. W. West Pdf

This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other uses. Almost as large an area of plantation forests is being established annually to replace those lost natural forests. Eventually, plantations will produce a large proportion of the wood used around the world for firewood, building, the manufacture of paper and bioenergy. Forest plantations can also provide various environmental benefits including carbon storage, rehabilitation of degraded land, serving as disposal sites for various forms of industrial or agricultural waste and enhancing biodiversity in regions that have been largely cleared for agriculture. Whatever their motivation, plantation forest growers want their plantations to be healthy and grow rapidly to achieve their purpose as soon as possible. This book discusses how this is done. It is written for a worldwide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, and describes how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably.

Author : Kevin Laughlin O'Hara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198703075

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Multiaged Silviculture by Kevin Laughlin O'Hara Pdf

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.

Author : Phil West
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540324799

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Growing Plantation Forests by Phil West Pdf

In a highly readable fashion, this book describes the scientific principles which are used throughout the world to ensure rapid, healthy plantation growth. It is written for a world-wide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, to describe how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably. The author has been a forest scientist for over 30 years.

Author : Frank Howard Wadsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02837759D

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Secondary Forest Management and Plantation Forestry Technologies to Improve the Use of Converted Tropical Lands by Frank Howard Wadsworth Pdf

Author : RG Florence
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643102521

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Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests by RG Florence Pdf

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.

Author : Roger A. Sedjo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317312253

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The Comparative Economics of Plantation Forestry by Roger A. Sedjo Pdf

Plantation forestry is the planting, managing, and harvesting of trees for the production of industrial wood. Originally published in 1983, the principal focus and contribution of the study lies in Roger Sedjo’s examination of the economic returns in twelve forest regions throughout the world. The results of the analysis strongly demonstrate the feasibility of major expansion of plantation forestry in a number of areas around the world and suggest the likelihood of major shifts in the principal supply areas. The results also have potentially important implications for countering the threats of deforestation. This title will be of interest for students of Environmental Studies.

Author : Herman Hidayat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811076534

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Sustainable Plantation Forestry by Herman Hidayat Pdf

This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy. It examines the roles of governments, private sectors, NGOs, academics and local communities in implementing sustainable plantation forestry, which aims to supply timber for the forestry industry while at the same time reducing global warming. The book also explores the debates on sustainable forest management practices in several countries, and examines the effects of political ecology on plantation forestry as well as the impact of climate change and conservation programs. By analyzing a number of interrelated issues, it offers a valuable resource for all governments, private companies, practitioners, NGOs, academics and students studying forest management and political ecology from a social sciences perspective.

Author : P. Panwar,S.D. Bhardwaj
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789386102218

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Practical Manual on Plantation Forestry by P. Panwar,S.D. Bhardwaj Pdf

The book would be of interest to those who are concerned with land use in forest and soil conservation, agriculture and forest colleges and universities. There are total eight chapters; Chapter first introduces plantation forestry as a science and spells the need and origin of large scale plantation. Second and third chapters are devoted to equipments and techniques used in plantation forestry. Rest of the chapters deals with management, planning, impact, energy relation of plantation and protection of plantation forestry.