silvics
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From silva (“forest”) + -ics, from Latin silva.
Noun
[edit]silvics (uncountable)
- (forestry) The study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.
- 1946, Ralph Chipman Hawley, The Practice of Silviculture, J. Wiley & Sons, page 1:
- Silviculture may be defined* as the art of producing and tending a forest; the application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest. Silvics deals with the fundamental laws underlying the growth and development of single trees and of the forest as a biological unit.
- 1990, Jerry A. Sesco, Foreword, Russell M. Burns, Barbara H. Honkala, Silvics of North America, Volume 1: Conifers, Agriculture Handbook 654, US Department of Agriculture, page iii,
- "Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States," Agriculture Handbook 271, was the first comprehensive document of its kind in the United States. […] The original "silvics manual" took 10 years to complete and was published in 1965.
- 1995, Christopher Herbert Richard Wedeles, Alternative Silvicultural Systems for Ontario's Boreal Mixedwoods, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, page 9,
- Silvics deals with the underlying principles of the growth and development of individual trees and the forest as biological units (Smith 1986).