Responsive Silviculture relates to forest operational processes being specifically tailored to meet present and predicted shifting of forest ecological conditions and societal demands. Forests will illustrate a natural tendency to prefer an optimum silvicultural treatment that validates a specific disturbance emulation such as a light thinning within a couple of years of a previous thinning operation.The process relies on the ability of managers’ experience to understand the forest type, complex silvicultural systems and opportunities. It is important to make consistent decisions on tree selection or silvicultural interventions within the constraints of the site condition and forest type. The knowledge to demonstrate a flexibility that can accommodate a variety of site conditions, species composition,production of wood products and, also, the capacity to guide both sustainability for longer-term and restoration towards a suite of ecological, social and economic benefits.
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