Continuous Cover Forestry: Assessment, Analysis, Scenarios

ISBN-13: 9789048160358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 348 str.

Klaus Von Gadow; Jurgen Nagel; Joachim Saborowski

Opis

The large-scale application of new silvicultural systems has become a political reality in many parts of the world. This involves a gradual tarnsformation of traditional silvicultural practice towards Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), also know as near-natural forest management, favouring mixed uneven-aged stands, site-adapted tree species and selective harvesting. Today, CCF systems are encountered in many parts of the world, but forest managers often lack the technical support for generating and evaluating treatment options for complex forest structures.

Specific CCF-related resource assessment, forecasting and sustainable harvest control techniques have been developed, but details about their use are not widely known. The emphasis in the book is on quantitative methods and modelling.

Spis treści

Resource Assessment and Monitoring. Stand Canopy Closure Estimated by Line Sampling with airborne Lidar; S. Magnussen, et al. Resource assessment techniques for Continuous Cover Forest systems; M. Köhl. Continuous cover forestry - new challenges for remote sensing; T. Zawila-Niedzwiecki, E. Wisniewska. An efficient approach to combine remote sensing and sample-based inventory for forest enterprises changing to near-natural forest management; M. Dees, et al. Monitoring of Forests under Continuous Cover System Management 'Tools for the Regionalisation of Forest Inventories'; J. Nieschulze, J. Saborowski. Analysis of Genetic Structure. Reproduction in continuous cover forests - the geneticist's perspective; R. Finkeldey. Effects of different silvicultural treatments on the genetic structure of European beech populations (Fagus sylvatica L.); K. Dounavi, et al. Target-diameter felling and consequences for gentic structures in a beech stand (Fagus sylvatica L.); M. Ziehe, H.H. Hattemer. Analysis of Forest Structure. Calibrating predicted diameter distribution with additional information for structurally diverse forest stands; J. Puumalainen, et al. Forest structure and diameter growth in maritime pine in a Mediterranean area; F. Bravo, B. Guerra. Analysis of mapped point patterns by nearest-neighbor indices - on the nearest-neighbor reciprocity and edge-effect corrections; E. Pinto Preuhsler. Spatial, Age and Diameter Structure of the Semi-natural Scots Pine Stands on Coastal Dunes in Latvia; J. Donis. Scenarios and control. Stem number guide curves for uneven-aged forsts - development and limitations; J. Cancino, K. von Gadow. A growth model and harvest allocation algorithm for timber and non-timber productmanagement planning in Iwokrama Forest, Guyana; D. Alder, et al. Generating management alternatives for multi-species stands using the decision-support system BWINPRO; M. Albert. Using logistic regression to model tree selection preferences for harvesting in forests in conversion; T. Ledermann. A methodology for the retrospective analysis of the releasement response of old aged European beech trees; A. Haywood, H. Spiecker. Preliminary study for a flexible growth model to predict the consequences of CCF in Wales; A. Pommerening, G. Wenk. Tree diversity, landscape diversity, and economics of maple-birch forests: Implications of Markovian models; C.-R. Lin, J. Buongiorno. Economic Evaluation of Uneven-aged Management; L. Valsta. Regional Experiences. Continuous cover forestry in the United States &endash; experience with Southern Pines; J.M. Guldin. Continuous cover forestry systems in tropical and subtropical forests &endash; current state and future perspectives; A.H.W. Seydack. The place of Continuous Forestry among the Silvicultural Systems in Poland; W. Gil, et al. Index.