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Site-Specific Silviculture |
Adaptive Management |
The southeastern U.S. is the world's woodbasket, home to some of the most productive and important forests on the globe. As the competing pressures of urbanization and a growing human population reduce the land available for forests and simultaneously increase the demand for wood fiber, forest scientists and resource managers are tasked with providing more wood volume on less land.
Building on decades of research, scientists are working on increasing the site-level precision with which treatments are carried out in these forests, to maximize production and reduce waste. |
Novel problems beget novel solutions: There is a need for forest management and conservation strategies that mitigate the damaging effects of emerging stressors and altered disturbance regimes. These strategies will have to span multiple spatial scales and will require a sound mechanistic understanding of the interactions between plant resource-use dynamics and forest structural conditions over space and time.
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Former Students
Robert Howell MF '19 - Oak regeneration outcomes
Christen Beasley MS '20 - Oak regeneration outcomes Alexander Byers MS '21 - Chemical site preparation Cora Every MF '22 - Bottomland hardwood regeneration |
David Carter (Ph.D. '18) is an assistant professor of silviculture at Virginia Tech and the co-director of the international Forest Productivity Cooperative.
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