Objective: In order to ensure ecological security at a national scale and improve forest quality, the former National Forestry Administration issued the "Guidelines for the Preparation of County-Level Forest Management Planning" in 2018. All the counties and cities across the country were first...

Forest management science is the leading discipline of forestry, which plays an important role in the construction of forestry in China. It is a discipline about the basic theory, techniques and arts of how to organize silvicultural and management practices. As a discipline, forest management was...

With the development history and conception of the silvicultural system (SS), the system implemented in Germany in the early 19^th century was first introduced. The first level was product targets containing two categories, the second level was forest forms comprising five sub-categories, and the...

Stand spatial structure is a significant factor in forest processes that regulates growth and promotes sustainability. Close-to-nature forest management (CNFM), structure-based forest management (SBFM), and secondary forest comprehensive silviculture (SFCS) are three forest management methods that...

Masson pine (Pinus massoniana) is the main timber species for afforestation in southern China, which plays an important role in meeting the demand for domestic timber and maintaining ecological security. As China enters a new era of ecological civilization, the forest utilization models have...

As a nature-based and cost-effective solution, forestation plays a crucial role in combating global warming, biodiversity collapse, environmental degradation, and global well-being. Although China is acknowledged as a global leader of forestation and has achieved considerable overall success in...

Red blight of Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a typical host-dominated disease. The ecological regulation is one of the best control strategies for this disease, and forestry technology is a basic and fundamental control measure of ecological regulation. Therefore, studying the forest management...

Forest conversion from monoculture plantations to mixed plantations has profound effects on ecological functions as well as soil bacterial community structure, and the creation of mixed plantations may substantially increase soil bacterial diversity. However, the potential function of soil nitrogen ...

Eucalyptus plantations harbor great potential for supporting ecosystem services, but this prospect is weakened under long-term traditional silviculture regimes. To reform these traditional silviculture regimes, we carried out a long-term Eucalyptus eco-silviculture experiment. However, the derived...

Natural forests serve as the main component of the forest ecosystem. An in-depth interpretation of tree composition and structure of forest community is of great significance for natural forest conservation, monitoring, management, and near-natural silviculture of plantation forest. In this study,...