Purpose of Review

Intensive management of forest plantations has evolved significantly in recent decades because of advances in our understanding of environmental and silvicultural effects on forest productivity combined with improvements in information technologies. Our paper summarizes concepts that provide a basis for making strategic and operational silvicultural decisions that insure sustainability when applying intensive management of forest plantations. In addition, we include new information in areas where there are knowledge gaps in forest plantation management.

Recent Findings

Intensive management of forest plantations increasingly incorporates large-scale precision silviculture to estimate silvicultural, biotic, and abiotic effects on site-specific forest productivity. Remote sensing measurements combined with strategically located ground information provide spatial modeling tools needed for this type of silviculture. Long-term field experiments, which are a part of this methodology, provide a mechanistic understanding of environmental and silvicultural effects on forest production that is required for the models driving silvicultural decisions. The focus on maximizing production will challenge scientific efforts to alleviate concerns about intensive land use and to provide solutions for water use conflicts while maintaining long-term productivity and sustainability. Future work will need to develop a better understanding of genetic × environment × silvicultural (G × E × S) interactions to improve productivity and simultaneously provide improved ecosystem services.

Summary

New silviculture technology combines remote sensing information with ground data to model resource availability and limitations to forest productivity. Understanding G × E × S permits successful implementation of these new silvicultural technologies. An improved understanding of G × E × S will provide practical tools that may be incorporated into our scientific and technical models while providing robust economic sustainability.

中文翻译：

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集约经营人工林造林研究进展

审查目的

近几十年来，由于我们对环境和造林对森林生产力的影响的了解以及信息技术的改进，对森林人工林的集约化管理有了很大的发展。本文概述了概念，这些概念为制定战略和运营造林决策提供了基础，这些决策可以确保在对森林人工林进行集约化管理时确保可持续性。此外，我们在森林种植管理方面存在知识空白的地区提供新信息。

最近的发现

对森林人工林的集约化管理越来越多地采用大规模精密造林，以估计造林，生物和非生物对特定地点森林生产力的影响。遥感测量与战略位置的地面信息相结合，提供了这种造林所需的空间建模工具。作为该方法一部分的长期野外实验提供了对环境和造林对森林生产的影响的机械理解，这是驱动造林决策的模型所必需的。致力于最大程度地提高产量将挑战科学努力，以减轻对土地集约利用的担忧，并为水使用冲突提供解决方案，同时保持长期生产力和可持续性。

概要

新的造林技术将遥感信息与地面数据相结合，以模拟资源的可获得性和对森林生产力的限制。了解G×E×S可以成功实施这些新的造林技术。对G×E×S的更好理解将提供实用的工具，这些工具可以结合到我们的科学和技术模型中，同时提供强劲的经济可持续性。