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SV0060

Sustainable Forest Management - Analysis and Adaptations

Information from the course leader

Dear students of course 2024. You should have received an email from me before the course starts with short information. Canvas can unfortunately not be opened until registration which will be on Monday November 4, 1 pm at lecture hall Silvicum. During the first day of the course, November 1st I recommend you to join the Forestry day in Alnarp.

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The course evaluation is open between 2025-01-12 and 2025-02-02

Syllabus and other information

Litterature list

Course literature 2024 Sustainable

In this course the main part of literature that you will read and use for written assignments will come from your own searching for scientific papers.


Larsen et al. **Closer to Nature Forest Management **[https://efi.int/publications-bank/closer-nature-forest-management]()

Nagel et al. **Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: A National Experiment in Manager-Scientist Partnerships to Apply an Adaptation Framework **

Rist et al. Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems 2014

Felton et al. How climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies can threaten or enhance the biodiversity of production forests: Insights from Sweden 2016

Achim et al. The changing culture of silviculture 2021

Bravo et al. Book chapter: A Mechanistic View of the Capacity of Forests to Cope with Climate Change. In the book Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht.

Bergh et al. The effect of water and nutrient availability on the productivity of Norway spruce in northern and southern Sweden 1999

Skovsgaard et al. Forest site productivity: a review of the evolution of dendrometric concepts for even-aged stands 2008

Hennigar et al. Development and evaluation of a biomass increment based index for site productivity 2017

Kelty Compare productivity of monocultures and mixed-species stands 1992. Chapter 1+8

Pommerening et al. A review of the history, definitions and methods of continuous cover forestry with special attention to afforestation and restocking 2004

Kuuluvainen Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Based on Natural Ecosystem Dynamics in Northern Europe: The Complexity Challenge 2009

CCF in the Nordic boreal forests , new book on Springer, yet not online. Selected chapters.



### OpenIntro Statistics.

David Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher Barr. Selected chapters in combination with R labs. Online pdf. https://leanpub.com/os

Statistics: An Introduction using R

Author: R. Crawley. ISBN: 9781118941119 (ebook). Note: Selected chapters in combination with R labs. https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/1sl36d2/alma9919290193805121




## Prerequisites

This is an advanced course in forestry and silviculture. Therefore we expect you to have some prior knowledge in the subjects and also in temporal and boreal forestry. Here are some literature that we expect you to already master, but if not we highly suggest that you read into this before the course starts.

Introduction to Swedish forestry and forest history

Swedish Forest Agency report 2020/4. Forest management in Sweden. Current practice and historical background. https://www.skogsstyrelsen.se/globalassets/om-oss/rapporter/rapporter-2020/rapport-2020-4-forest-management-in-sweden.pdf

Growing plantation forestry

Author: P.W. West. , chapter 1-8. ISBN: 9783319018263. Available online with your SLU library account. https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/kl53n/springer_s978-3-319-01827-0_129010 .

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Euroforester (MSc) Forest Science - Master's Programme Forest Management - Bachelor's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 38060 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Forestry Science
Course code: SV0060 Application code: SLU-20191 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Pace: 100%