Content

1) Introduction: Silviculture concepts, adaptative silviculture, social demands.

2) Intermediate cuts: Stand characterization, foundations on intermediate cuts (pruning and thinning), role and aims of forest production, intermediate cuts types and their applications on forest plantations.

3) Variability and species selection: Variability in the forests, forest species introduction, genetic improvement, tree selection, seeds, seeds garden.

4) Forest species propagation: Sexual and asexual propagation of forest species, seedlings production.

5) Establishment of forest plantations: Techniques of forest species establishment.

6) Traditional agricultural crops: Seeds, sowing, soils conservation.

7) Alternative agricultural crops: Organic production, nontraditional crops.

Course material

Lectures slides, articles and reports to be assigned through the semester. This course also will include field work on main forest companies.

DONOSO, C. PREMOLI A., GALLO L., IPINZA R. 2004. Variación Intraespecífica  en las especies arbóreas de los bosques templados de Chile y Argentina.
HARTMANN, T y KESTER E. 2000.  Propagación de plantas, principios y prácticas.
FAO.  1991. Guía para la manipulación de semillas forestales.
INSTITUTO FORESTAL.  1989.  Eucaliptus principios de silvicultura y manejo.

Explanation category

Apart from lectures, this course will also include field work on main forest companies.