Natural disturbance as a guide to silviculture

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 as a guide to silviculture - ScienceDirect.com

Patterns and processes resulting from natural disturbances display greater variation in time and space than that manifested through traditional ...

Natural disturbance as a guide to silviculture | Fire Research and ...

From the text...'Fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and insect outbreaks may sound like a recipe for a forester's nightmare, but more and more forest managers ...

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 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 ...

Natural disturbance as a guide to silviculture - Preface | Request PDF

2002 ), whereas, natural disturbances create heterogeneity, influencing the variety and diversity of forest species (Palik et al. 2002). The low similarity ...

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 ...

Emulating natural disturbance regimes: an emerging approach for ...

To achieve the former, researchers and practitioners are modifying silvicultural practices based on concepts from successional and landscape ecology to provide ...

(PDF) Natural Disturbance-Based Silviculture for Restoration and ...

A natural disturbance model for management assumes that species have evolved to local environmental conditions and a particular disturbance regime, such that ...

Natural Disturbance-Based Silviculture for Restoration and ...

and Pacific Northwest where silvicultural management is conserving native biodiversity by using natural disturbance as a guide. Introduction. Foresters have ...

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

In Europe, forest management has controlled forest dynamics to sustain commodity production over multiple centuries. Yet over-regulation for growth and ...

Ecological Forestry: Natural Disturbance Based Silviculture - YouTube

This is a video response to a question that was posted on the MyMinnesotaWoods.org discussion board. The topic is Ecological Forestry: ...

Emulating natural disturbances: the role of silviculture in creating ...

A similar approach could be applied to any region where the natural disturbance regime creates a landscape where both even-aged stands established after stand- ...

Natural disturbance regimes in northeastern North America ...

Our purpose is to advance the practice of ecological forestry beyond the application of simple principles, to a more rigorous approach that is benchmarked ...

Natural disturbance as a guide to silviculture - INFONA

North Central Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 1831 Hwy. 169 E., Grand Rapids, MN 55744-3399, USA. M.L. Hunter. Department of Wildlife Ecology, ...

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

A theme of contemporary silviculture is using natural disturbance regimes to guide silvicultural treatments (Attiwill, 1994; Angel- stam ...

Forest Management Guide for Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation

This guide is applicable to all areas managed under the clearcut silvicultural system within the Boreal Forest. (Hill's Site Regions 3S, 4S, 3W, 3E and portions ...

Wisconsin Silviculture Guide Chapter 21: Natural Regeneration

from those created by natural disturbance. Variations to This Method. 1. Single Tree: The distribution of individual seed trees, typically three to 10 per ...

Silviculture and Emulation of Natural Disturbance Study Guide ...

Distinctions: Silviculture is not to be confused with exploitive timber harvesting, biocentric preservation, or agriculture. Conservation Biology Approaches.

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

Fundamentally, the natural disturbance-based management approach is grounded on the properties of forest ecosystems, which are shaped by large-scale pressures ...