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VII. Suggested Reading
Daniel TW, Helms JA and Baker FS. 1979. 
Principles of Silviculture. 
McGraw-Hill Book
Company.
Julius E. 1992. 
Plantation Forestry in the Tropics
. Oxford University Press.
Khanna LS. 1996. 
Principle and Practice of Silviculture
. International Book Distributors.
Khanna LS. 2015. 
Theory and Practice of Indian Silviculture Systems
. Bio-Green Publisher.
Lamprecht. 1986. 
Silviculture in the Tropics
.Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg und Berlin.
Nyland RD, Laura S, Kenefic, Kimberly K, Bohn and Susan LS.2016 
Silviculture: Concepts
and Applications 
(III edition), Kindle Edition, USA.
Pascal. 1988. 
Wet Evergreen Forests of the Western Ghats.
Shepherd KR. 1986. 
Plantation Silviculture.
Springer.
Smith DM, Larson BC, Ketty MJ and Ashton PMS. 1997. 
The Practices of Silviculture- Applied
Forest Ecology
. John Wiley & Sons.
Lecture Schedule
Sr. No.
Topic
No. of Lecture(s)
Theory
1.
Forest ecosystems- Introduction to tropical/ temperate silviculture
01
2.
Role of silviculture in forest and wild land management, major
forest formations-classification, distribution, composition and structure
02
3.
Vegetation dynamics- species richness-diversity indices, various
concepts
02
4.
Vegetation forms of India and their productivity
01
5.
Forest ecosystem- structure and functioning, community development,
competitive interactions in forest communities
03
6.
Forest succession, concepts and models of succession-Connell-Slatyer
models, climax theories, tolerance
03
7.
Ecophysiology of tree growth- effect of radiation and water
relationship, mineral nutrients and temperature
02
8.
Forest stand development – stand development, even-aged and
uneven-aged stands, age and site quality
02
9.
Tree architecture and its role in stand management
02
10.
Silvicultural treatments involved- thinning as a stand management
tool, objectives of thinning, effects on growth and yield, thinning
effect on economic yield of stands
03
11.
Forest site quality evaluation-direct and indirect methods
02
12.
Treatment analysis-silvicultural regimes- factors influencing choice
of regimes, use of system analysis to determine regimes
03
13.
Models for evaluating silvicultural alternatives
02
14.
Development of silvicultural regimes to suit management objectives
02
15.
Optimum management strategies: silvicultural prescriptions for
maximum production regime
02
Total
32
Practical
1.
Visit to different forests to study forest composition and classification
4
2.
To study the effect of locality factor and determination of site quality
in the different forests
4
3.
To study the plant sucession in different types of forests
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4.
To study the stand form, growth and stand density in major forest
of the locality
2
5.
To carry out the productivity studies in different forests
2
6.
To study the impact of thinning in different periodic
blocks/ selection forest
2
Total
16