Multiaged Silviculture: Managing for Complex Forest Stand Structures

by Kevin O'Hara

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198703074
• ISBN13: 9780198703075
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.6"