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SV0055

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Silviculture applies forest ecology to manage forest stands with the aim to provide society with wood raw materials and other ecosystem goods and services. In this course, you will study how a range of silvicultural practices, including management of stand structure, composition, density, rotation length and site fertility affect forest development and ecosystem services (with emphasis on wood, carbon and water). After the course, you will be able to evaluate the scientific basis for current and emerging silvicultural practices such as continuous cover forestry, carbon forestry and mixed species forests. We place particular emphasis on learning the skills and tools needed for analysing forest stand management for sustainable provision of desired goods and services under different conditions, including changing climate and management objectives. Thus, the course will give you a sound foundation for decision-making and implementation. The course primarily focuses on boreal and temperate forests, but we will also use examples from tropical forests to discuss differences between forest types, site conditions, and consequences of climate change. We target students interested in careers in the forest industry, public sector, and research in forest science, forest ecology or soil science.

Information från kursledaren

Welcome to Silviculture!

This is the third course within the Master's programme Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management, but can be also taken as a stand-alone course.

Please note that subtle changes in the schedule will happen during the course and those will be announced through Canvas. The most updated schedule is ALWAYS placed on Canvas (not on the course webpage).

Since the course has a few invited lectures from all over Sweden, some lectures are online. Some lecturers may do their on-campus teaching also online but this won't be the rule. If there is a group assignment, it is up to the students how they organize their work - both online and in-person are allowed.

This is a 100% pace, on-campus class which will require students to work on average 8 hours a day. We expect you to be in class everyday, but officially 'mandatory' classes are shown highighted in BLUE on the schedule. If you cannot make the mandatory days, you will need to do an assignment to make up for missing this mandatory event. Please, accomodate your schedule to this.

We are very much looking forward meeting everybody on January 20th at 9:15 am in Bokskogen (on the same floor as the Service Center and Library)!

Kind regards from the course leaders,

Eliza Maher Hasselquist, Hyungwoo Lim, and Ulrik Ilstedt

Kursvärdering

Kursvärderingen är öppen

Svara på kursvärderingen

Värderingen går att besvara till och med 2025-04-07

Kursplan och övrig information

Litteraturlista

Pretzsch H, 2009 Forest Dynamics, Growth and Yield, chap. 2, 6, 10 and 11 (Will provide on request)

Landsberg, J. and P. Sands. 2011. Physiological ecology of forest production: principles, processes and models. Terrestrial Ecology. Elsevier Chap. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Will provide on request)

Pommerening, A. 2023. Continuous Cover Forestry: Theories, Concepts, and Implementation.

- There will be an open book exam in class that you will only have access to a hard copy of this book. There are only 2-3 hard copies available in the SLU library. We suggest you buy this one.

Kursfakta

Kursen ges som en fristående kurs: Ja Kursen ges som en programkurs: Skoglig ekologi och hållbar skötsel - masterprogram Skoglig ekologi och hållbar skötsel Jägmästarprogrammet Kursavgift: Studieavgift, endast för medborgare utanför EU, EES, och Schweiz: 38060 SEK Nivå: Avancerad nivå (A1N)
Ämne: Skogsbruksvetenskap
Kurskod: SV0055 Anmälningskod: SLU-30124 Plats: Umeå Distanskurs: Nej Undervisningsspråk: Engelska Ansvarig institution: Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel Studietakt: 100%