Welcome to the course! Schedule and literature will be available in Canvas. Important dates for travel planning are the mandatory excursion 17-20 November. Distance studies and winter holidays are between December 15 - January 9. Other mandatory tasks and schedule is available in the prelim schedule here and later on canvas.

This is not a beginners course in Silviculture so if you have no earlier classes in the subject I recommend you to start with the suggested pre-requisite literature.

Course literature SV0060, 2025

Sustainable Forest Management - Analysis and Adaptations

In this course the main part of literature that you will read and use will come from your own searching for scientific papers. The reading will be done mainly in four different modules

Sustainable forest management

Concepts of sustainable forestry, climate change adaptations, resilient forestry, closer to nature forest management.

Books, reports and book chapters:

Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change: Sustainable Management. Girona, M. M., et al., Eds. (2023)., Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6

**A Mechanistic View of the Capacity of Forests to Cope with Climate Change. **Bravo et al. Book chapter in the book Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht.

Resilient forest management. P.J. Burton. (2025). Oxford university press.

**Closer to Nature Forest Management. **Larsen et al. https://efi.int/publications-bank/closer-nature-forest-management

Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries. (2024)** **Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70484-0

Articles especially for use in group work and assignments:

Rist et al. Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems 2014

Felton et al. How climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies can threaten or enhance the biodiversity of production forests: Insights from Sweden 2016

Achim et al. The changing culture of silviculture 2021

Fernandez-Gimenez et al. Mobility in pastoral systems: Dynamic flux or downward trend? International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 2006 Vol. 13 Issue 5 Pages 341-362

Dendrochronology and climate change

Literature regarding dendrochronology and how to use the techniques to understand climate and tree growth

Books, reports and book chapters:

Tree rings. Basics and Applications of Dendrochronology. Fritz Hans Schweingruber (2012) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1273-1 . Chapter 3-4

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Articles especially for use in group work and assignments:

Drobyshev et al. Multi-century reconstruction of fire activity in Northern European boreal forest suggests differences in regional fire regimes and their sensitivity to climate. Journal of Ecology. 2014

And literature provided in canvas.

Ecophysiology and forest management

Drivers of tree growth and stress responses in trees. What is ecophysiology and how can we use it in forest management? We will discuss the role of light, water, humidity and nutrients in driving tree growth, allometry, water and carbon dynamics. We discuss how they influence our management decisions. In the basis we discuss general processes that can be applied to a wide range of tree species, and we zoom in on the important tree species of Scandinavia in discussions and group work.

Books, reports and book chapters:

**Hirons & Thomas. **Applied tree biology: Chapter 6, 7 & 8 (other chapters prerequisite knowledge, see below) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-29639-1

**Rossi et al. **Chapter 9: Control over Growth in Cold Climates. In: Trees in a changing environment: Ecophysiology, Adaptation and Future Survival. Ed. Tausz & Grulke. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-9100-7

Articles especially for use in group work and assignments:

Aldea J, Dahlgren J, Holmström E, Löf M. 2024. Current and future drought vulnerability for three dominant boreal tree species. Global Change Biology 30: e17079. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17079

**Aussenac G. 2000. **Interactions between forest stands and microclimate: Ecophysiological aspects and consequences for silviculture. Annals of Forest Science 57: 287–301. https://doi.org/10.1051/forest:2000119

Axelsson E, Axelsson B. 1986. Changes in carbon allocation patterns in spruce and pine trees following irrigation and fertilization. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2: 189–204. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/2.1-2-3.189

Bergh J, Linder S, Lundmark T, Elfving B. 1999. The effect of water and nutrient availability on the productivity of Norway spruce in northern and southern Sweden. Forest Ecology and Management 119: 51–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00509-X

Gessler A, Schaub M, McDowell NG. 2017. The role of nutrients in drought-induced tree mortality and recovery. New Phytologist 214: 513–520. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14340

**Harvey JE, Smiljanić M, Scharnweber T, Buras A, Cedro A, Cruz-García R, Drobyshev I, Janecka K, Jansons **

Kunert N, Hajek P, Hietz P, Morris H, Rosner S, Tholen D. 2021. Summer temperatures reach the thermal tolerance threshold of photosynthetic decline in temperate conifers. Plant Biology 24: 1254–1261. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13349

Matkala L, Kulmala L, Kolari P, Aurela M, Bäck J. 2021. Resilience of subarctic Scots pine and Norway spruce forests to extreme weather events. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 296: 108239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108239

Svensson C, Bader MK-F, Fransson A-M, Alriksson C-G, Goude M, Bergh J. 2024. Norway spruce productivity in southern Sweden is equally limited by nitrogen and phosphorous. Forest Ecology and Management 572: 122192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122192

Ward EJ, Domec J-C, Laviner MA, Fox TR, Sun G, McNulty S, King J, Noormets A. 2015. Fertilization intensifies drought stress: Water use and stomatal conductance of Pinus taeda in a midrotation fertilization and throughfall reduction experiment. Forest Ecology and Management 355: 72–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.009

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Statistics and analysis of forest experiments

Books, reports and book chapters:

OpenIntro Statistics David Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher Barr.. Selected chapters in combination with R labs. Online pdf. https://leanpub.com/os

Statistics. An introduction using R. R. Crawley**. **ISBN: 9781118941119 (ebook). Note: Selected chapters in combination with R labs. https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/1sl36d2/alma9919290193805121

Literature that we consider to be prerequisite knowledge

(Literature from previous courses at Euroforester master program or FLAP bachelor program, or similar literature)

Applied Tree Biology . Covering the biological and physiological principles behind the management. Hirons and Thomas

Growing plantation forestry. P.W. West., especially chapter 1-8. ISBN: 9783319018263. Available online with your SLU library account. https://slu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/46SLUB_INST/kl53n/springer_s978-3-319-01827-0_129010