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...

While much emphasis has been placed on scientific and policy issues in forest management, there is a lack of clarity on users' perspectives concerning the implementation of scientific forest management. To clarify this nuance, this study explores users' opinion on scientific forest management...

The aim of the work is to present the 200-year-old output of 'Sylwan' journal in the field of silviculture, with particular emphasis on the trends in the development of this discipline in forest science and practice. As a result of the query, limited to the content analysis of only those articles...

Management of forest for wood production has altered ecosystem structures and processes and led to habitat loss and species extinctions, worldwide. Deadwood is a key resource supporting forest biodiversity, and commonly declines following forest management. However, different forest management...

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...

Most suggestions for adapting forest management in times of rapid global change have focused on tree regeneration, mortality, and productivity under predicted future climates. Adaptation to other aspects of global change, such as invasive species or changes in social settings, has received much...

Besides traditional timber production, other forest functions, such as biodiversity and recreation, have gained increasing importance during the last few decades. Demands on forests have become more diversified, thus making forest management and planning more complex. To meet these challenges,...

Habitat trees provide microhabitats for many forest-related species, and thus habitat-tree retention is one of the main measures to integrate nature conservation objectives into forests managed for wood production. By setting aside habitat trees, forest managers have to solve a crucial tradeoff...

Analysis was made on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of current forest ecological security in China. The result demonstrated that forest area and growing stock increased, management mode was gradually "standardized" and forest ecological security tended to be positive. But...

Sustainably managed forests provide multiple ecosystem services in cultural landscapes, including maintaining biodiversity. Better understanding of the benefits regarding the biodiversity of different silvicultural practices is important for sustainable landscape management. Conservation targets in ...