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Studies on the models of sustainable management for plantations (5/5)

  • Date of declaration:2018-03-16
  • PI:Chih-Ming Chiu
  • Division:Forest Management Division
Research title
Science and Technology Programs(2017)
KeyWord
plantations;longterm-rotation;close-natural forest;desired trees;
Abstract
To reach 21th century, the protection of ecological environments and conservation of natural forests are the current trend on the earth. Therefore, the ban of natural forest cut is still a continuing tendency. Under the circumstance, it is important that sustainable and intensitiving management of man-made forests through a breeding desired trees and a series of alternative silvicultural tending strategies (such as dispersed thinning, tree selection, aggregated (gap or cluster) cutting, natural regeneration and planting or tending) to approach the long-term rotation plantation management that is to establish multi-stories and uneven aged, mixed-species plantations to reach sustainable forestry. In the meantime, reduces the disturbed manipulations to minimum, furthermore, uneffect the forest structure and landscapes. And pure even-aged plantations were gradually transformed into natural multi-stories and uneven aged mixed-species forest i.e. close to natural forest. Those forests are claimed to maintain that can produce wood sustainability and continuous cover forestry. Moreover, the breeding target trees can possess big diameter, good quality and high value will be harvested at the extended rotations. Therefore, that sustainable forest could balance social, cultural, ecological and economic needs.