Plantation Forestry in the Tropics
The Role, Silviculture, and Use of Planted Forests for Industrial, Social, Environmental, and Agroforestry Purposes
Third Edition
Julian Evans and John W. Turnbull
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Why plantations?
3. Plantation forest in tropical countries
4. Plantation organization
Land, Social & Economic Factors, and Planning in Plantation Development
5. Land and plantation development
6. Social and economic factors in tree-planting and plantation development
7. Planning the plantation enterprise
Plantation Silviculture
8. What to plant?
9. Seed collection, supply and storage
10. Forest nurseries
11. Clonal plantations
12. Plantation establishment
13. Plantation maintenance
14. Nutrition of tree crops
15. Dynamics of stand growth
16. Thinning
17. High pruning
18. Rotations, regeneration, and coppice
19. Protection - an introduction
Tree-Planting and Plantation Forestry: Rural Development, Soil Conservation and Rehabilitation, and Environmental Considerations
20. Tree-planting in rural development and agroforestry
21. Protective afforestation
22. Plantations for ecosystem rehabilitation and restoration
23. Afforestation of inhospitable sites
24. Ecological factors and sustainability of plantations