Forestry and silviculture

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

Decentralization is sweeping the world and having dramatic and far-reaching impacts on resource management and livelihoods, particularly in forestry.

Bamboo is considered one of the most sustainable and versatile building materials, driving the development of multiple techniques for its study and utilization.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values.

We shall limit our observations to the conditions in natural ecosystems, since it would be beyond the scope of this book to embark upon a consideration of secondary, man-made ecosystems.

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of research on state-of-the-art genomics on the most advanced model tree species including genome assemblies, insights into genomic structural features and methylation patterns, whole-genome resources used for population genomics and adaptation to climate, enabled breeding vs.

This book analyses and develops overarching concepts for forest policy and forest governance and includes a detailed investigation into the historical discussion on forests.

Typically, landscape ecologists use empirical observations to conduct research and devise solutions for applied problems in conservation and management.

The word forest comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest "e;forest, vast expanse covered by trees"e;; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees.

Over the past decade the importance of natural resources for sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed at international forums and conferences.

Remote sensing and GIS are increasingly used as tools for monitoring and managing forests.

Harold A.

Due to the complexity of operational forestry problems, computing applications are becoming pervasive in all aspects of forest and natural resource management.

In analysing the development and achievements of Polish forestry and forest industries over the last four decades, it is necessary to take into consideration the situation prevailing after the end of the Second World War, when these sectors of the national economy were starting their activities.

Figure 1-1.

The discipline of mycology is a fascinating one.

Soil, a precious natural resource bestows its benefits to the entire biotic entity of the globe.

Forest ecosystems include a great variety of communities of organisms interacting with their physical environment: multi-aged natural forests, even-aged monocultures, and secondary forests invaded by foreign species.

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades.

For the last two decades the loss of, in particular, tropical rainforest has alarmed the public in the developed parts of the world.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of biosystems engineering, as presented at the 12th Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA), held in Palermo, Italy, on September 19-22, 2022.

An integrated view of the current and emerging methods and concepts applied in soil carbon research.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China).

There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries.

The book is a fundamental reference source on reaction wood for wood scientists and technologists, plant biologists, silviculturists, forest ecologists, and anyone involved in the growing of trees and the processing of wood.

Originally published in 1975, Man and Wildlife traces the evolution of man from pre-hominid ancestors, and his influence in modifying the environment and its flora and fauna as technical knowledge grew.

In this manual, Post-harvest Tobacco Infestation Control, we have addressed the 'state-of-the-art' and given little account of obsolete techniques.

Africa is largely dependent on natural resources in its quest to achieve sustainable development goals, with its woodlands and forests known to be among the most exploited ecosystems.

The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit, there have been increased efforts on an international scale to address global climate change.

National Parks and Sanctuaries are prominent components of protected areas and important part of broader eco-development strategies.

The biomedical community often complains of the crowded schedule of important meetings to be attended.

Invasion of non-native plant species, which has a significant impact on the earth's ecosystems, has greatly increased in recent years due to expanding trade and transport among different countries.

The European Russian forests are described within the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized.

The biota of the earth is being altered at an unprecedented rate.

Eucalypts are used for the production of paper products, firewood, charcoal, potential feedstocks for bioenergy and biomaterials, as ornamentals and landscape trees, and in land rehabilitation.

Who has rights to forests and forest resources?

by Peter J.

This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers contributions from the th 18 IUFRO workshop on Air Pollution Stress, Forest Responses to the Pollution st Climate of the 21 Century held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from September 21 to 23,1998.

Forestry is the science, skills and activities related to the human utilisation of the big plants called trees and the land on which they are growing.

This book brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India.

This volume provides an abundance of valuable information on emerging eco-friendly technology and its potential role in combating climate change via agroforesty.

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics.

Plantation forestry has been emerging as a strong attraction to the traditional forestry practice due to its acceptability and productivity improvement.

As a member of the working group (WG) on "e;Temperate Zone Fruit Trees in the Tropics and Subtropics"e; of the International Society for Horticulture, I was aware of the lack of readily available information needed in many warm-climate locations where temperate fruit crops are grown.