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Ecoforestry, the Glossary

Ecoforestry has been defined as selection forestry or restoration forestry.^[1]

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture. Ecoforestry and Agroforestry are environmental issues with forests, sustainable agriculture and sustainable forest management.

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Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist.

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Assisted migration

Assisted migration is "the intentional establishment of populations or meta-populations beyond the boundary of a species' historic range for the purpose of tracking suitable habitats through a period of changing climate...." It is therefore a nature conservation tactic by which plants or animals are intentionally moved to geographic locations better suited to their present or future habitat needs and climate tolerances — and to which they are unable to migrate or disperse on their own.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biomass

Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cellular respiration

Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy.

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Clearcutting

Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

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In scientific ecology, climax community or climatic climax community is a historic term for a community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state.

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Coarse woody debris

Coarse woody debris (CWD) or coarse woody habitat (CWH) refers to fallen dead trees and the remains of large branches on the ground in forests and in rivers or wetlands. Ecoforestry and coarse woody debris are sustainable forest management.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Compaction (geology)

In sedimentology, compaction is the process by which a sediment progressively loses its porosity due to the effects of pressure from loading.

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Continuous cover forestry

Continuous cover forestry (commonly referred to as "CCF") is an approach to the sustainable management of forests whereby forest stands are maintained in a permanently irregular structure, which is created and sustained through the selection and harvesting of individual trees.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Crop

A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Ecoforestry

Ecoforestry has been defined as selection forestry or restoration forestry. Ecoforestry and Ecoforestry are environmental issues with forests, forestry, forestry in Europe, forestry in Sri Lanka, history of forestry, sustainable agriculture, sustainable forest management and world forestry.

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Ecological restoration

Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

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Ecological succession

Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Ecosystem service

Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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Epicormic shoot

An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant.

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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Forest cover

Forest cover is the amount of trees that covers a particular area of land.

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Forest ecology

Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, flora, fauna and ecosystems in forests. Ecoforestry and forest ecology are forestry.

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Forest management

Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical aspects, such as silviculture, forest protection, and forest regulation. Ecoforestry and forest management are forestry and sustainable forest management.

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Forest restoration

Forest restoration is defined as "actions to re-instate ecological processes, which accelerate recovery of forest structure, ecological functioning and biodiversity levels towards those typical of climax forest", i.e. the end-stage of natural forest succession.

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Forester

A forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Ecoforestry and forester are history of forestry.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Heinrich Cotta

Johann Heinrich Cotta (30 October 1763 – 25 October 1844) was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Holism

Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.

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Illegal logging

Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws. Ecoforestry and Illegal logging are environmental issues with forests and world forestry.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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International Analog Forestry Network

The International Analog Forestry Network (IAFN) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that seeks to conserve and restore biodiversity worldwide through the application of analog forestry.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Julian Alps

The Julian Alps (Julijske Alpe, Alpi Giulie,,, Julische Alpen) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Market failure

In neoclassical economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not Pareto efficient, often leading to a net loss of economic value.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Native species

In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.

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Payment for ecosystem services

Payments for ecosystem services (PES), also known as payments for environmental services (or benefits), are incentives offered to farmers or landowners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Primary production

In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.

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Productivity

Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Regeneration (ecology)

In ecology regeneration is the ability of an ecosystemspecifically, the environment and its living populationto renew and recover from damage.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.

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Robanov Kot

Robanov Kot is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Solčava in northern Slovenia.

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Selection cutting

Selection cutting, also known as selection system, is the silvicultural practice of harvesting trees in a way that moves a forest stand towards an uneven-aged or all-aged condition, or 'structure'.

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Silviculture

Silviculture is the practice of controlling the growth, composition/structure, as well as quality of forests to meet values and needs, specifically timber production.

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Slash (logging)

In forestry, slash, or slashings are coarse and fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow or other natural forest disturbances.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.

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Snag (ecology)

In forest ecology, a snag refers to a standing dead or dying tree, often missing a top or most of the smaller branches.

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Soil

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.

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Soil compaction

In geotechnical engineering, soil compaction is the process in which stress applied to a soil causes densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains.

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Soil erosion

Soil erosion is the denudation or wearing away of the upper layer of soil.

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Soil quality

Soil quality refers to the condition of soil based on its capacity to perform ecosystem services that meet the needs of human and non-human life.

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Sowing

Sowing is the process of planting seeds.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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Sustainable management

Sustainable management takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management.

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Topsoil

Topsoil is the upper layer of soil.

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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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Variable retention

Variable retention is a relatively new silvicultural system that retains forest structural elements for at least one rotation in order to preserve environmental values associated with structurally complex forests. Ecoforestry and Variable retention are environmental issues with forests, forestry, sustainable agriculture and sustainable forest management.

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Vegetation

Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Volume

Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space.

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Water quality

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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Wildfire suppression

Wildfire suppression is a range of firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires.

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoforestry

Also known as Analog forestry, Close to nature forestry, Closer to nature forestry, Ecological forestry.

, Market failure, Mexico, Native species, Payment for ecosystem services, Peru, Pesticide, Philippines, Photosynthesis, Pine, Primary production, Productivity, Protected area, Rare species, Regeneration (ecology), Riparian zone, Road, Robanov Kot, Selection cutting, Silviculture, Slash (logging), Slovenia, Snag (ecology), Soil, Soil compaction, Soil erosion, Soil quality, Sowing, Sri Lanka, Sustainability, Sustainable management, Topsoil, Understory, Variable retention, Vegetation, Vietnam, Volume, Water quality, Wildfire, Wildfire suppression, Wildlife, Zimbabwe.

Ecoforestry, the Glossary

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See also

Environmental issues with forests

Forestry in Europe

Forestry in Sri Lanka

History of forestry

Sustainable forest management

World forestry

References