SELECTIVE THINNING Increasing mechanical stability and biodiversity in black pine plantations: SelPiBioLife technical handbook
Considering that often thinnings on low productive high forests such as those of black pine represent a cost for the manager, it is believed that interventions should be as effective as possible for the improvement of all forest functions, in the logic, therefore, to minimize the cost/benefit ratio. In this sense, beside the modality and intensity of the single treatment, the reasoning should be extended also to the thinning system within the entire life cycle of the stand. It might be appropriate, where allowed by the structural setting of the stand, to lengthen the time between thinning by carrying out single treatments more effectively; this would ensure a lower cost and a lower overall impact on the system (reduction in the number of treatments). Selective thinning proposed by the SelPiBioLife Project is consistent with this strategy. The key points of the treatment modality are: the incisive treatment to produce effective growth increment and improvement of the candidate trees shape (productive and protective functions); the implementation of an optimal overall microclimatic environment for increasing flora and fauna biodiversity. The method we propose implies that the stand analysis will be more accurate than with customary thinning from below. The choice of candidate trees and their competitors requires then a thoughtful consideration in the marking phase, as it is a sensible responsibility for the foresters. We believe that the simple and reproducible rules for selective thinning described in this manual will support the action of forest technicians. The manual is also intended as a tool at a later stage, when the quality of the marking choices will be checked.
- Εκδότης: Compagnia delle Foreste S.r.l.
- Δημιουργός: Cantiani Paolo (editor)
- Πηγή: SelPiBioLife
- Ιστότοπος: https://www.selpibio.eu/en/download/category/3-selpibio.html?download=34:manual-selpibio-en-ottobre-2016
- Γλώσσα: Αγγλική
- Άδεια Χρήσης: Ελεύθερη χρήση/διανομή (public domain - open access)
- Έτος: 2016
- Βιβλιογραφία: Cantiani Paolo (editor). 2016. SELECTIVE THINNING Increasing mechanical stability and biodiversity in black pine plantations: SelPiBioLife technical handbook. Compagnia delle Foreste S.r.l., Arezzo. 62 p.
