Overview

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.

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Author:   Kevin O'Hara (Professor of Silviculture, Professor of Silviculture, University of California- Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780198703075

ISBN 10:   0198703074
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: 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 Silviculture

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Multiaged Silviculture is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of all natural resource managers working in forests. * Andrew Nelson, Journal of Forestry. * It is a must read for every forester especially where these issues are important driving mandates. And I would encourage every forester to have a copy available for reference at the very least. * Mark S. Ashton, Quarterly Review of Biology * O'Hara 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 *

O'Hara 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 Multiaged Silviculture is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of all natural resource managers working in forests. Andrew Nelson, Journal of Forestry.

O'Hara 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

O'Hara 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 It is a must read for every forester especially where these issues are important driving mandates. And I would encourage every forester to have a copy available for reference at the very least. Mark S. Ashton, Quarterly Review of Biology Multiaged Silviculture is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of all natural resource managers working in forests. Andrew Nelson, Journal of Forestry.

Author Information

Kevin 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).

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