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Résumé :
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Continuous Cover Forestry: Theories, Concepts, and Implementation will offer detailed descriptions of the theories, concepts, history, and implications of continuous cover forestry (CCF). The book will approach the subject in a systematic way, by introducing terms and definitions, history and cultural aspects and ways of introducing CCF. This is followed by characterising starting situations of CCF that forest managers can find themselves in. The book will then discuss methods of individual-based forest management and how these methods are applied in CCF. Questions of management are developed based on the concept of horizontal and vertical forest structure. Specialised concepts are briefly presented and discussed followed by an outline of adaption of CCF to delivering a diverse range of ecosystem goods and services. Finally simple models for projecting the growth in CCF woodlands are introduced along with aspects of CCF training and human tree selection behaviour.
Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is an approach to forest management with over a century of history, one which applies ecological principles to the project of developing biologically diverse, structurally complex forests. Long used as the standard forest management method in Central Europe, CCF is generating renewed interest globally for its potential to develop and sustain forests that can withstand climate change impacts, maintain forest biodiversity in the face of major ecological challenges and offer better recreation experience. There is an increasingly urgent need for forest scientists and policymakers to be familiar with the toolkit provided by CCF.
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