This special issue was proposed by the Organizing Committee of the commemorative event of the fifty years of the Graduate Program in Forestry Engineering at the Federal University of Paraná - 1972-2022. The issue contains 5 papers focusing on silviculture, management of native and planted forests,...

This study analyzed the diametric distributions before and after forest management in a rainforest area of the Amazon in the Amapá State, Brazil. It aimed to understand how the diametric distribution of the forest was recovered after 27 years of forest management between 1984 and 2011. For this...

Timber forest management in unequaled forests has been an economically and environmentally viable alternative in Brazil, through the use of appropriate techniques and procedures of the Sustainable Forest Management Plan (PMFS), making it possible to obtain timber production with greater...

One of the main alternatives for the rational exploitation of the Caatinga biome's natural resources is sustainable forest management (FM) which can influence different components of the ecosystem, such as vegetation and soil. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term...

The silviculture of Cunninghamia lanceolata in its region of origin (China) is widespread, due to its fast growth and wood quality, suitable for multiple industrial uses. In Brazil, the species is considered of high potential for the forest management. The present study aimed to evaluate...

Forest-dwellers in the Brazilian Amazon public forests share the management of the territory and natural resources with governmental agencies, subjecting themselves to State rules. This study aims to evaluate the perception of stakeholders about the autonomy of traditional communities to carry out...

The objective of this work was to carry out a systematic review in order to identify the indicators related to occupational safety in native forest management systems. The search for scientific articles with interest for the review was carried out in 16 scientific databases of articles written in...

The advancement of Brazilian forestry was marked by the creation of the first higher education forestry entity in the year 1960. With high-tech laboratory structures and professor's training in the best universities of the world, allied with partnerships with national and international high-level...

Morphometric relationships refer to the space that a tree needs to develop and they assist in forest management practices. Therefore, this study aimed to fit models between these morphometric relationships and the number of pine cones from Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze forest sites...

Wood is one of the most important forest products in the northeast of Brazil, and it is increasingly necessary that its exploitation can be carried out in a sustainable way. In this sense, the forest management has been proposing significant improvement of the environmental characteristics of this...