Silviculture: Concepts and Applications

Part 1 Introduction and foundations: silviculture as an orderly discipline the silvicultural system logging as a tool of silviculture. Part 2 Regeneration techniques: concepts of regeneration site preparation planning for artificial regeneration nursery production and tree planting regeneration from seed, including direct seeding reproduction methods and their implications selection system and its application uneven-aged reproduction methods growth and development in selection system stands clearcutting shelterwood and seed-tree methods early stand development release cuttings thinning and its effect upon stand development methods of thinning thinning regimes in the even-aged silvicultural system managing quality in forest stands stand protection and health management improvement, salvage and sanitation cuttings partial cutting outside the silvicultural system coppice silviculture adjusting to administrative demands.