The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

Continuous cover forestry (CCF) is not a new idea in forest management but there has been
renewed interest in it for the potential it has to meet the sustainability requirements which are …

The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure
to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and …

Scattered trees are prominent features in many landscapes worldwide, including natural
landscapes, cultural landscapes, and recently modified landscapes. The ecological …

Silviculture to maintain old-growth forest attributes appears to be an oxymoron since the late
developmental phases of forest dynamics, described by the term old-growth, represent …

Recent research in northern Europe has revised many long-held conceptions of the
complexity of forest ecosystems and their natural structure and dynamics. The unveiling of …

Green-tree retention cutting (GTR) is a modification of traditional clear-cutting, aimed at
better consideration of biodiversity. We reviewed 214 North American and European studies …

Since WWII, forest management in Fennoscandia has primarily been based on even-aged
stand management, clear cut harvesting and thinning from below. As an alternative, uneven …

This book is organized around a presentation of historical and classic core models that
every serious student or researcher of forest economics must know. These models, along …

Since the mid-1990s, it has been common practice to leave trees for biodiversity purposes
when clear-cutting in Finland, Norway and Sweden, and regulations for such tree retention …