Growing Plantation Forests

This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. It details how plantations can be grown both responsibly and profitably.

List of contents

Plantation Forests.- Biology of Plantation Growth.- Growth Rates and Wood Quality.- Choosing the Species and Site.- Establishment.- Nutrient Management.- Stand Density and Initial Spacing.- Thinning.- Pruning.- Pests.- Diseases.- Tree Breeding.- 13 Mixed-Species Plantations.- Silviculture and Sustainability.

About the author

Professor Phil West has been a forest scientist for over 40 years. His research specialities concern the growth behaviour of forests. He is presently a forestry consultant and teaches both plantation forestry and forest measurement in the forestry school of Southern Cross University in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: P W West, P. W. West, Phil W. West
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2013
• EAN: 9783319018263
• ISBN: 978-3-31-901826-3
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 239 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Illustrations: XII, 329 p. 44 illus., 15 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; B, trees, Timber & wood processing, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Biogeosciences, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Forestry, Forestry Management, Tree Biology, Wood Science & Technology, Forest products, forest management;forestry;plantation, forest;silviculture