FRST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Adaptive Management, Control Stand, Systems Theory
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Plants, algae make their own food and are called primary producers herbivores - eat plants and are called primary consumers carnivores - which eat herbivores are called secondary consumers carnivores - which eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers. Sunlight come in form of heat and photosynthesis. Silviculture - to produce goods and services that the landowner and society in general desire. Getting landowners and general society to define and prioritize various uses of the forest. A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in species composition arrangement of age classes, site quality, and condition to be a distinguishable unit. The optimal solution for the forest is never the sum of the optimal solutions for the stands. Series of activities linked together for meeting a set of object. Weeding discriminating against one or more species. Site preparation: bare mineral soil, reduce slash. Fertilization: becoming more and more common, adding key nutrients that might be missing.
