ECTS
5 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Hours per week
37,5h
Description
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Natural forest |
The main types of forests (tropical, temperate, Mediterranean, boreal, etc.) and their species |
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Successive stages of forest development (pioneers, etc.) |
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Cultivated forest and forestry |
Plantations, tree species |
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Silvicultural practices: Selective cutting and natural regeneration, pruning, thinning, continuous cover, planting, tree maturity, rotation time, production tables, management & development plan |
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Agroforestry |
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Soil and nutrients |
Soils, litter, and dead wood decomposition |
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Threats and opportunities for forests |
Climate threats (drought, disease, insects) and solutions for the future |
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Anthropogenic threats (forest management, illegal trade, etc.) |
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French sector |
Eco-socio-economic characteristics |
Objectives
The EU "Natural and cultivated forests" aims to distinguish between different types of forests with their specific challenges, management methods, and resulting uses.
Targeted skills
- List the main species characteristic of natural and cultivated forests and their possible uses.
- Explain the competition and synergies between species in a forest ecosystem and the resulting stages of development during succession dynamics.
- Describe the types of forestry and their main operations and environmental impacts.
- Interpreting a production table or curve and a management plan
- Justify the choice of management methods based on ecological, economic, and social issues.
- Understanding the physical basis of climate change, the manifestations of climate change on forest ecosystems, and their impacts according to tree species and silvicultural practices.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection of tree species in relation to the silvicultural system and natural and anthropogenic risks.