Silviculture for landscape architects

Lecture focus - Dr. Holger Fischer

• Definition of "forest"
• Characteristics of the internal forest climate
• Climates of the earth - Forests of the earth
• From primeval forest to commercial forest - Forest history
• Silvicultural activity in the forest - Decision-making
• Autoecology and synecology of native tree species
• Growth processes of individual trees
• Growth processes of stands
• Silvicultural strategies I: Types and forms of operation
• Silvicultural strategies II: Cutting methods
• Silvicultural strategies III: Rejuvenation technique sonographies