Main entry:

Evans, Julian, 1946-

Title & Author:

Plantation forestry in the tropics : the role, silviculture, and use of planted forests for industrial, social, environmental, and agroforestry purposes / Julian Evans, John W. Turnbull.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Description:

xiii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-448) and indexes.
The tropics -- Defining a plantation -- Tropical plantation species -- Why plantations? -- Factors favouring plantation development -- Planted forest in tropical countries -- Development of plantation forestry -- Present status of plantations in the tropics -- Plantation organization and structure -- Plantation organization -- Plantation characteristics -- Plantation design -- Plantation life-history -- Plantation monitoring -- Land, social and economic factors, and planning in plantation development -- Land and plantation development -- Resource management domains -- Land capability -- Land-use -- Obtaining land for plantation development, encouraging tree-planting and extension -- Social and economic factors in tree-planting and plantation development -- Factors affecting the scale and rate of planting and plantation development -- Social and cultural effects of plantation development -- The contribution of planted forests to the economies and rural development in the tropics -- Planning the plantation enterprise -- Policy planning at international and national levels -- Planning in large projects -- Planning for small-scale tree-planting -- Plantation silviculture -- What to plant? -- Purpose of the plantation -- Species potentially available -- Matching species with site -- Making the choice -- Seed collection, supply, and storage -- Seed quality -- Quantity of seed needed -- Seed certification, records, and dispatch procedures -- Seed procurement -- Seed storage -- Packaging and transport of seed.
Seed supply and trade problems -- Forst nurseries -- Planning forest nurseries -- Nursery location and design -- Preparation of seed -- Time of sowing -- The container system -- Raising bare-rooted seedlings -- Care, protection, and conditioning of seedlings -- Quality control, dispatch, and transport of plants -- Clonal plantations -- Development of clonal plantations -- Vegetative propagation methods -- Clonal deployment -- Small-scale clonal plantings -- Role of molecular genetics in clonal forestry -- Plantation establishment -- Pre-establishment essentials -- Ground preparation -- Planting -- Special forms of establishment -- Plantation maintenance -- Immediate post-planting problems -- Weed control -- Staking -- Tree shelters -- Singling -- Respacing -- Low pruning -- Nutrition of tree crops -- Nutrient deficiencies -- Use of fertilizers -- Maintaining soil fertility without using mineral fertilizer -- Nutrient toxicity -- Dynamics of stand growth -- Periodicity and pattern in growth of individual trees -- Stand growth is dynamic -- Physiological basis of stand development -- Silvicultural implications -- Selective pruning -- Thinning -- Definition and objectives -- Experience with thinning in the tropics -- Effects of thinning -- Methods of thinning -- Thinning and wood quality -- Thinning decisions -- Thinning practice and control -- High prunning -- Need to prune -- Production of knot-free timber -- Timing and intensity of high pruning -- Economics of pruning -- Pruning practice.
Rotations, regeneration, and coppice -- Rotation length -- First rotation harvesting and preparation for the next rotation: silvicultural considerations -- Natural regeneration -- Plantation species as invasives -- Coppice -- Protection-an introduction -- Inorganic and man-made damage -- Organic damage -- Salvaging a damaged crop -- Protection strategy -- Tree-planting and plantation forestry: in rural development, soil conservation, rehabilitation, environmental considerations, and sustainability -- Tree-planting in rural development and agroforestry -- Woodlots -- Trees with crops -- Trees and livestock -- Trees planted for other purposes -- Protective afforestation -- Urgency of protective afforestation in the tropics -- Protective role of tree cover -- Implementing programmes of protective afforestation -- Management and silviculture in protection planting -- Tree planting for ecosystem rehabilitation and restoration -- Degradation and rehabilitation -- Management strategies -- Species selection -- Site management practices -- Afforestation of inhospitable sites -- What makes sites inhospitable? -- Silvicultural challeng of inhospitable sites -- Ecological factors and sustainability of plantations -- Biodiversity in plantation forestry -- Eucalypt environmental controversy -- Sustainability of plantations -- Site change induced by plantation forestry -- Risk exposed to plantations -- Evidence of productivity change -- Withinrotation yield class/site quality drift -- Intervention to sustain yield.

Summary:

This new edition presents an up-to-date assessment of current developments in planting trees in tropical regions, whether the principal motivation is economic or social. Issues such as engaging with stakeholders & sustainable management are addressed, & a historical context is provided.

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ISBN:

0198529945 (hbk.)
9780198529941 (hbk.)
0198509472 (pbk.)
9780198509479 (pbk.)

Subject:

Tree farms Tropics.
Forests and forestry Tropics.
Tree crops Tropics.
Tree farms.
Plantations ligneuses Régions tropicales.
Sylviculture Régions tropicales.
Tree crops
Forests and forestry
Forstwirtschaft
Tropics
Tropen

Added entries:

Turnbull, J. W. (John W.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278037
Call No.: BIB 213400
Copy: pbk.
Status: Available