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Continuous Cover Forestry

Assessment, Analysis, Scenarios

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Editors:
  1. Klaus Gadow

    1. Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

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  2. Jürgen Nagel

    1. Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

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  3. Joachim Saborowski

    1. Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 4)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Resource Assessment and Monitoring

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1
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    2. Stand Canopy Closure Estimated by Line Sampling with airborne Lidar

      • Steen Magnussen, Mike Wulder, David Seemann
      Pages 1-12

    3. Resource assessment techniques for Continuous Cover Forests systems

      • Michael Köhl
      Pages 13-26

    4. Continuous Cover Forestry: New Challenges for Remote Sensing

      • Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Emilia Wisniewska
      Pages 27-34

    5. An Efficient Approach to Combine Remote Sensing and Sample Based Inventory for Forest Enterprises in Transition to Near-Natural Forest Management

      • Matthias Dees, Jan Duvenhorst, Claus Peter Gross, Barbara Koch
      Pages 35-52

    6. Monitoring of Forests under Continuous Cover System Management

      • J. Nieschulze, J. Saborowski
      Pages 53-66
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The large-scale application of new silvicultural systems has become a political reality in many parts of the world. This involves a gradual transformation of traditional silvicultural practice towards Continuous Cover Forestry, also known as near-natural forest management, favouring mixed uneven-aged stands, site-adapted tree species and selective harvesting. Selective harvesting systems have a long tradition. Specific CCF-related resource assessment, forecasting and sustainable harvest control techniques have been developed, but details about their use are not widely known. The objective of this volume is to present state-of-the-art research results and techniques relating to CCF management with an emphasis on systems engineering and modelling. Using a very simple classification based on the development of timber volume over age or time we may distinguish two types of sustainable forest management systems. Rotation forest management (RFM) systems, characterized by standard silvicultural treatments and repetitive cycles of clearfelling followed by planting; and continuous cover forestry (CCF) systems which are characterized by selective harvesting and natural regeneration, resulting in uneven-aged structures and frequently also in multi-species forests. The distinction is usually the result of decisions relating to the cost of timber harvesting, simplicity of management, or various intangible benefits. The oldest and most perfect examples of CCF systems are the so­ called plenter selection forests found in France, Switzerland, Slowenia and Germany. Today, CCF systems are encountered in various regions of Europe, North America and in some tropical and sub-tropical forests of South Africa, Asia and South America.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

    Klaus Gadow, Jürgen Nagel, Joachim Saborowski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Continuous Cover Forestry

  • Book Subtitle: Assessment, Analysis, Scenarios

  • Editors: Klaus Gadow, Jürgen Nagel, Joachim Saborowski

  • Series Title: Managing Forest Ecosystems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9886-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0659-3Published: 30 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6035-8Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9886-6Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-1319

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-3956

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 348

  • Topics: Forestry, Tree Biology, Ecology, Environmental Management

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