Intensive silviculture demands new inventory tools for better forest management and planning. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) was shown to be one of the best alternatives for high-precision inventories applied to productive plantations. The aim of this study was to generate multiple stand-scale maps...

This special issue on silviculture contains 18 selected papers from the workshop and covers a broad spectrum of forest management from the nursery and plantation management to the management of natural forest under various silvicultural system and forest management regimes in Nepal.

These proceedings contain papers on topics about forest ecology and conservation, forest management, biodiversity and genetic conservation, forest policy and economics, forest remote sensing and gis / precision forestry, forest protection, forest soil and silviculture, social forestry, nature...

The objective of this study was to examine existing knowledge on forest products development and to promote sustainable forest management in Ethiopia. Furthermore, the paper aimed to assess the development and status of Ethiopia's forest products industry in terms of resource base, manufacturing...

Firewood has been a common traditional energy source used by communities living in villages and cities in Timor Leste. About 80% of villagers use firewood as an energy source, which puts pressure on forest disturbance as demand increases. Therefore, energy forest plantation can be an important...

Fertilization is an important means to grow fast-growing and high-yield plantation. Proper fertilization can maintain soil nutrients balance, improve soil quality, promote forest growth, and reduce the negative effects on environment. Precision fertilization in plantations is an applied technology...

Timber production is the focus of forest management in Ghana. Environmental services are scarcely factored into forest management plans. This may be due to a lack of understanding and estimation of the value of environmental services. Using choice modelling, this study attempts to fill the...

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,...

The paper considers the issues of forest reproduction by plantation type based on selection and genetic approaches in forest cultivation and forest seed production. The research explores the growth condition and regularities of common pine plus-trees, the best individuals with high-quality...

Understanding stand structure and growth relationships and how they are influenced by silvicultural treatments can help us optimize forest management regimes. With two large long-term silvicultural research experiments in loblolly pine plantations, we examined the effects of planting density,...