As pressures to preserve natural forest resources have increased, plantation forestry and its study have gained in importance. Plantation Silviculture in Europe is an up-to-date, timely, and comprehensive exploration of the principles that underlie the planting and maintaining of forest
resources. Based on the excellent reception of Savill and Evans' Plantation Silviculture in Temperate Regions (OUP, 1986), which was largely UK-based, the inclusion of two European authors ensures that the scope of this new book extends across the entire continent. Plantation Silviculture in Europe
provides a thorough overview of the central aspects of conventional plantation forestry, covering site preparation, choice of species, establishment and maintenance, nutrition, spacing, thinning and pruning, and protection. In addition, it acknowledges the changing emphasis and increasing diversity
of contemporary forestry, and includes chapters on community woodlands, urban forests, plantings for amenity and sport, and energy crops. Throughout, an attempt is made to set practices in the context of the ecological and biological forest processes which underpin them. Plantation Silviculture
also incorporates discussion of the many environmental, social and policy issues that surround forestry today. Concise and clearly written, this will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate forestry students and forestry professionals alike. Likely to become the standard text throughout
Europe, it also contains much material of relevance to foresters in North America, East Asia, and Australasia.
Introduction: the role of plantations
Primary production and long-term productivity in plantations
Economic, environmental, social and policy issues in tree planting
Part B: Principles of Plantation Silviculture
Site preparation
Choice of species
Plantation
establishment
Weed control and cleaning
Nutrition and fertilizers
Spacing, thinning, pruning and rotation length
Management of pests and pathogens
Protection from wind
Fire
Part C: Specialized Forms of Plantation Silviculture
Plantations on derelict
land
Short rotation crops
Plantations for special purposes
There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.
Dr. Peter Savill, Lecturer in Silviculture, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK Professor Julian Evans, Chief Research Officer, British Forestry Commission, 33 Cranford Drive, Holybourne, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4HJ, UK Professor Daniel
Auclair, Directeur de Recherche, INRA, BP 5035, 34032 Montpellier, Cedex 1, France Dr. Jan Falck, Lecturer in Silviculture, Department of Silviculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umea, Sweden
