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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kevin O'Hara (Professor of Silviculture, Professor of Silviculture, University of California- Berkeley)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.30cm Weight: 0.692kg ISBN: 9780198703068ISBN 10: 0198703066 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 28 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction to Multiaged Silviculture 2: History of Multiaged Silviculture 3: Disturbance Dynamics of Multiaged Stands 4: Dynamics of Multiaged Stands 5: Dynamics of Forest Gap and Group Openings 6: Multiaged Management Systems 7: Multiaged Stocking Control 8: Regenerating Multiaged Stands 9: Tending Multiaged Stands 10: Transformations to Multiaged Stand Structures 11: Managing Multiaged Stands for Diverse Objectives 12: Growth Projection in Multiaged Stands 13: Volume and Economic Production of Multiaged Stands 14: Genetics and Multiaged Silviculture 15: Multiaged Structures and Stand Health 16: Social Justifications for Multiaged SilvicultureReviewsOHara provides a well-written synthesis of the social considerations connected to this type of forest management. Numerous photographs, diagrams, tables, and graphs; comprehensive reference list ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE Author InformationKevin O'Hara is Professor of Silviculture at the University of California - Berkeley where he teaches field and classroom courses in forestry. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and taught for 8 years at the University of Montana before joining the University of California faculty. He is the author of over 120 scientific papers and served on the editorial boards or as associate editor of the European Journal of Forest Research, Forestry, and the Journal of Forestry. His research focuses on a variety of aspects of forest stand dynamics and their application to silviculture. However, the bulk of his research focuses on multiaged stand dynamics and silviculture. He has published over 40 papers on the topic of multiaged silviculture and has served as the leader of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Uneven-aged Silviculture Research Group (IUFRO 1.05). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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