6 A silvicultural system that emulates natural disturbances and stand...

Download scientific diagram | 6 A silvicultural system that emulates natural disturbances and stand structures to restore and maintain important structural ...

Natural Disturbance and Stand Development Principles for ...

Foresters use natural disturbances and stand development processes as models for silvicultural practices in broad conceptual ways. Incorporating an ...

Natural disturbance as a guide to silviculture - ScienceDirect.com

While no silvicultural system perfectly recreates a natural disturbance, it is widely assumed that the closer silvicultural prescriptions come to emulating ...

Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest ...

These trends have stimulated interest in alternative management systems, including natural dynamics silviculture (NDS). NDS aims to emulate ...

Natural Disturbance-Based Silviculture: Adaptation and Wildlife ...

Simply retaining trees at harvest is not ecological silviculture! Page 22. Ecological silvicultural system-long-term sequence of treatments for restoring, ...

Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest ...

NDS aims to emulate natural disturbance dynamics at stand and landscape scales through silvicultural manipulations of forest structure and ...

Full article: Feasibility of silviculture for complex stand structures

Information on the response of stand structure to natural disturbance will provide tools and models for manipulating uneven-aged managed stands.

Ecological Silviculture - Foundations and Applications by Brian J ...

This book presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models—models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological ...

First decadal response to treatment in a disturbance-based ...

Disturbance-based silvicultural systems generally seek to promote complex stand structures that are consistent with temporal and spatial ...

Natural disturbance regimes in northeastern North America ...

Such a landscape will not contain a natural diversity of con- ditions unless silvicultural systems make substantial provisions for retaining within-stand ...

APPENDIX E – SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS - USDA Forest Service

or structure of the uneven-aged stand. This method simulates natural disturbances caused by the death of scattered trees. Regeneration occurs under the ...

... simple example illustrating relationships between natural dynamics and management of the black spruce forest is presented in Fig. 6. Varying silvicultural ...

Chapter 21 - Natural Regeneration - Wisconsin DNR

A silvicultural system is a planned program of vegetation treatment during the entire life of a stand. All silvicultural systems include three ...

Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: Concepts and ...

To emulate natural forest disturbance, forest managers must select appropriate disturbance regimes to emulate, based on the relative significance of such ...

Silviculture in an uncertain world: utilizing multi-aged management ...

This has culminated in an effort to reframe silvicultural activities as forms of disturbance emulation that direct stands on trajectories that ...

Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond ...

Emulation of natural disturbances in forest management is hypothesized to play a key role in sustainable forest ecosystem management. Conventional forest ...

Disturbances and structural development of natural forest ...

Forest managers need a comprehensive scientific understanding of natural stand development processes when designing silvicultural systems that integrate ...

What is close-to-nature silviculture in a changing world?

clearcuts that emulate stand-replacement disturbances in some ecosystems/regions or the intentional development of single- species stands.

exploring the compatibility of ecological and adaptation silviculture

Natural disturbance and stand development principles for ecological forestry. ... Natural disturbance emulation in boreal forest ecosystem management ...

Silvicultural alternatives to conventional even-aged forest ...

... silviculture is the relative emphasis on management versus natural disturbances. ... standing arguments about alternative silvicultural systems ...