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Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden

Focus is on forest management and forest ecology in managed stands. We investigate how sustainable development is, or can be, implemented in today’s forestry practice. The course gives you the tools to switch from traditional instrumental-guideline approaches to more flexible objective-driven management to respond to emerging needs and challenges in forestry. We cover plantation forestry as it is widely practiced today, and emerging forest management approaches like continuous cover, mixed-species stands and retention tree practices. Two weeks are spent outdoors, visiting forests and experimental stands in Halland and Småland.

Information from the course leader

New update!

All students will the week before the course receive e-mails for instructions on the first day and roll call. It seems to be difficult for students to register before the first day, and thereby get access to the Canvas course page. We will have the first day roll call on campus, in the building Silvicum, Sundsvägen 3, Alnarp. Time 09.00-12.30. During this time we have a roll call, information from the program study director and administration etc. This will be followed by a introduction to the course. All needed material will also be available later on the course web page. For those of you who can not participate in Alnarp, please e-mail me and I will send you a zoom link for the first day.

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Welcome to the course for autumn 2021!

It is still too early to say how we might need to adapt to the pandemic during autumn 2021. We are following the directions and guidelines from the Swedish government and from our University. For now, we are planning to mix both campus based and online teaching. We have scheduled lectures in Alnarp on campus Tuesdays and Thursdays, and other days will be online.

Usually we have 2 weeks with forest excursions where we travel to Halland and Småland Monday-Friday. As for now, we have the recommendations not to travel during September. This means that we initially will have only day-trips to forests nearby Alnarp. But maybe it will be possible to do a 5-day trip in October. For students in risk groups or who for any reason connected to the pandemic need to study 100 % on distance, we will adapt the course syllabus individually. If any questions, please don´t hesitate to contact the course leader Emma Holmström.

You can read more about the course here: https://www.slu.se/en/departments/southern-swedish-forest-research-centre/education/courses/sustainable-forestry/

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

SG0231-10089 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for SG0231

Academic year 2023/2024

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden (SG0231-10130)

2023-08-28 - 2023-10-30

Academic year 2022/2023

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden (SG0231-10196)

2022-08-29 - 2022-10-31

Academic year 2020/2021

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden (SG0231-10020)

2020-08-31 - 2020-11-01

Academic year 2019/2020

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden (SG0231-10166)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2018/2019

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden (SG0231-10089)

2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11

Syllabus and other information

Litterature list

  1. _ Kommentar: All literature will be available on the Canvas course portal or as online literature through the SLU library service.
  2. Bergh, J., S. Linder, T. Lundmark and B. Elfving (1999). "The effect of water and nutrient availability on the productivity of Norway spruce in northern and southern Sweden." Forest Ecology and Management 119(1-3): 51-62 1) Binkley, D., O. C. Campoe, M. Gspaltl and D. I. Forrester (2013). "Light absorption and use efficiency in forests: Why patterns differ for trees and stands." Forest Ecology and Management 288: 5-13. 1) Skovsgaard, J. P. and J. K. Vanclay (2008). "Forest site productivity: a review of the evolution of dendrometric concepts for even-aged stands." Forestry 81(1): 13-31. 1) Hennigar, C., A. Weiskittel, H. L. Allen and D. A. MacLean (2017). "Development and evaluation of a biomass increment based index for site productivity." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 47(3): 400-410. 1) Kelty, M. J. (1992). Compare productivity of monocultures and mixed-species stands. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publ. 1) Pommerening, A. and S. T. Murphy (2004). "A review of the history, definitions and methods of continuous cover forestry with special attention to afforestation and restocking." Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 77(1): 27-44. 1) Lundqvist, L. (2017). "Tamm Review: Selection system reduces long-term volume growth in Fennoscandic uneven-aged Norway spruce forests." Forest Ecology and Management 391: 362-375. 1) Gustafsson, L., et al. (2020). "Retention as an integrated biodiversity conservation approach for continuous-cover forestry in Europe." Ambio 49(1): 85-97. 1) Kuuluvainen, T. (2009). "Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Based on Natural Ecosystem Dynamics in Northern Europe: The Complexity Challenge." Ambio 38(6): 309-315. 1) Gustafsson, L., J. Kouki and A. Sverdrup-Thygeson (2010). "Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences." Scand J For Res 25. 1) Growing plantation forestry Författare: P.W. West ISBN: 9783319018263 [Growing plantation forestry] (https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/kl53n/springer_s978-3-319-01827-0_129010) Kommentar: Selected chapters and sections
  3. Gustafsson, L., et al. (2020). "Research on retention forestry in Northern Europe." Ecological Processes 9(1). 1) Petersson, L., E. Holmström, M. Lindbladh and A. Felton (2019). "Tree species impact on understory vegetation: Vascular plant communities of Scots pine and Norway spruce managed stands in northern Europe." Forest Ecology and Management 448: 330-345. 1) Conservation biology for all Författare: Sodhi et al ISBN: 9780199554249 [Conservation biology for all] (https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554232.001.0001/acprof-9780199554232) Kommentar: Chapter 2, 4 and 16
  4. Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. Författare: F. Bravo ISBN: 1-281-49357-0 [Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. ] (https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/1sl36d2/alma9919279787805121) Kommentar: Chapter: A Mechanistic View of the Capacity of Forests to Cope with Climate Change
  5. Statistics: An Introduction using R Författare: R. Crawley ISBN: 9781118941119 (ebook) [Statistics: An Introduction using R] (https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/1sl36d2/alma9919290193805121) Kommentar: Selected sections in combination with R labs.
  6. Forest management in Sweden. Current practice and historical background. Författare: Swedish Forest Agency report 2020/4. [Forest management in Sweden. Current practice and historical background.] (https://www.skogsstyrelsen.se/globalassets/om-oss/rapporter/rapporter-2020/rapport-2020-4-forest-management-in-sweden.pdf) Kommentar: Introduction to Swedish forests and forestry
  7. Rist, L., et al. (2014). "Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems." Ecosphere 5(6). 1) Felton, A., et al. (2016). "How climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies can threaten or enhance the biodiversity of production forests: Insights from Sweden." Biological Conservation 194: 11-20. 1) Waring, R., J. Landsberg and S. Linder (2016). "Tamm Review: Insights gained from light use and leaf growth efficiency indices." Forest Ecology and Management 379: 232-242.

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Euroforester - Master's Programme Forest Management - Bachelor's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 38054 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Forest Science Biology Forest science Biology
Course code: SG0231 Application code: SLU-10089 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Pace: 100%