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VII. Suggested Reading
Colak AH, Rotherham ID and Calikoglu M. 2003. 
Combining ‘naturalness concepts’ with close-
to-nature silviculture
. Forstwiss. Centralbl. 122, 421–431.
Sairll PS, Evans J, Auclair D and Flack J. 1997. 
Plantation Silviculture in Europe
. Oxford
University Press.
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.
Planning for regeneration, setting the objectives for
regeneration, principles and methodologies of forest regeneration,
ecological basis of natural regeneration techniques
03
2.
Basic concepts in forest regeneration, importance of different
combinations of light, moisture, soil in determining success or failure
of regeneration
03
3.
Factors affecting natural and artificial regeneration- kinds, extent and
quality of sites
02
4.
Techniques of canopy manipulation and forest continuum in regular
and irregular forests canopy, light pattern and regeneration
establishment
03
5.
Regeneration survey and methodology
02
6.
Major Silvicultural systems of tropical and temperate parts of
the world. Continuous cover forestry
02
7.
Advances in coppice Silviculture. Silviculture in a changing world
02
8.
Advances in artificial regeneration techniques, advances in
vegetative propagation techniques like mini and micro-cutting
techniques, production technology for quality planting stock,
carbon enrichment
02
9.
Techniques for production of quality planting stock. Integrated
nutrient management in nursery production
02
10.
Plant quality assessment tools
04
11.
Nursery production system of important timber and Non-Timber
Forest Products, NTFP’s yielding species in the region
02
12.
Sustainable site establishment practices, Novel tree establishment
techniques
02
13.
Regeneration problems of important conifers and broad leaved
species-case studies
03
Total
32
Practical
1.
Factors affecting natural and artificial regeneration,
2
2.
Advances in vegetative propagation techniques like mini and micro-
cutting techniques,
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3.
Production technology for quality planting stock,
3
4.
Carbon enrichment techniques for production of quality planting stock,
2
5.
Integrated nutrient management in nursery production.
2
6.
Novel tree establishment techniques.
2
7.
Modern approaches in containerized seedling production.
2
Total
16