211-333 Native Forest Silviculture

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Subject Description

On completion of this subject, students should have an appreciation of a range of silvicultural techniques; understand the constraints placed on each by ecological and social factors; understand regeneration processes in Australian forests and woodlands; understand the significance of diseases in forestry, and strategies for their management; be able to plan and supervise silvicultural operations involving regeneration and tending of a range of Australian forest types. The course includes the role of silviculture and its relationship to forest policy, internationally and within Australia; sources of regeneration, flowering and seed production, seedbed requirements, factors affecting seedling establishment and monitoring of seedling regeneration; the principal groups of pathogens, host-parasite relationships, epidemiology and control; regeneration biology of selected Australian forest types, and regeneration methods or silvicultural systems appropriate to them; stand tending methods and their relevance to various Australian forest types.

Assessment

One 3-hour written examination at the end of the semester; assignments and reports on practical work may be required.