4.00.00 - Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management
Co-Coordinators: | Deputy Coordinators: |
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Bianca Eskelson, Canada Donald Hodges, United States | Temesgen Hailemariam, United States |
Unit 4.00.00
UNIT NOTICEBOARD
All-Division 1 & 4 Online Discussion Conference
Close-To-Nature Silviculture: Experiments and Modelling for Forestry Practice
online, 7-9 February 2023.
Units involved: 1.00.00, 4.00.00 and all Research Groups and Working Parties
The purpose of this conference is to showcase and discuss the concept, science and practice of close-to-nature silviculture, focusing mainly on experiments and modelling for forestry practice:
- Close-to-nature silviculture is often defined by what it is not or, rather, as a contrast to classical or conventional silviculture. What do we really mean with these terms?
- Which type of experiments, experimental designs and forest modelling approaches are relevant to contrast classical, conventional, close-to-nature silviculture or other management principles?
- Can we rely on inventory data when modelling the effects or outcome of these comprehensive approaches to forest management, or do we have to wait for long-term experiments to mature?
- Is close-to-nature silviculture the solution to climate-change adaptation?
About Unit
This Division includes: studies of growth and yield (including mensuration); forest resource inventory (collection and analysis of resource data); forest management planning and managerial economics; remote sensing; management sciences of forest enterprises; statistical methods, mathematics and computer technology.