Continuous Cover Forestry (eBook)

Arne Pommerening is Professor of Forest Science in the Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Umea, Sweden. He is a prolific scholar of CCF, having taught classes on this subject for more than 20 years, and from 2000 to 2011 he was involved in the introduction of CCF to the United Kingdom.

1 Introduction

1.1 When is a forest a forest?

1.2 The nature of forestry and forest management

1.3 Silvicultural regimes and types of forest management

1.4 Silvicultural analysis and planning

1.5 Continuous cover forestry - definitions, terms & semi-synonyms

1.6 Common misconceptions dispelled

1.7 The societies that shape us: Contrasting history of forestry

1.8 Ensuring sustainability: Area control versus size control

1.9 CCF in a changing world

1.10 How to introduce CCF to a new region or country?



2 How Do I get Started with CCF?



2.1 Introduction

2.2 Identifying land suitable for CCF

2.3 Starting from scratch - instant new CCF

2.4 The mission of transformation and conversion

2.5 Keeping it going: The Maintenance of CCF

2.6 Biological automation and rationalisation

3 Individual-Based Forest Management



3.1 Introduction

3.2 Definition and terms of individual-based forest management

3.3 History of individual-based forest management

3.4 How and when frame trees are selected

3.5 How frame trees are managed

3.6 Individual-based forest management for restructuring and transforming forests



4 Forest Structure - The Key to CCF



4.1 Introduction

4.2 Crown classes

4.3 Mixing species - but how and when?

4.4 Non-spatial measures of forest structure



5 Interacting with Forest Structure



5.1 Introduction

5.2 Thinnings

5.3 Regenerating forest stands with silvicultural systems

5.4 Selection System

5.5 Continuous Two-Storeyed High Forest



6 Demographic equilibrium and guidance models



6.1 Introduction

6.2 History

6.3 Static equilibrium models

6.4 Dynamic equilibrium models

6.5 Quantifying deviations

6.6 Concluding remarks



7 Putting it all together



7.1 Introduction

7.2 Forest development types

7.3 Specialised CCF management



8 Training for CCF



8.1 Introduction

8.2 Training requirements

8.3 Marteloscopes



References



A Overview of the most common principles of CCF

B Light demand of tree species