Course title
森林施業論   [Silviculture]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year 3  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01rn3069
Instructor(s)
戸田 浩人, 崔 東寿   [TODA Hiroto, CHOI Dongsu]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
This course explores the effects of forest management practice on various forest function. The objective of this course is to learn theory of silviculture, management of artificial and natural forests. And this is also to learn science technology of their backgrounds.
Students will learn basic management practice and theory of artificial and natural forests.
Expected Learning
Students need to understand silviculture theories and techniques. And you need to gain knowledge of good productivity and healthy forest management.
Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy: See the Curriculum maps.
(URL: https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ )
Course schedule
1-5. Artificial conifer forests management
Characteristics of conifer trees for artificial stand
Plantation, management plan, history of forestry
Breeding of trees, site preparation, planting, pruning, weeding
Cleaning, thinning, density control, multi-storied forest
Natural regeneration, etc.
6-9. Broad-leaved forests management
Characteristics of broad-leaved trees
Stand structure of natural broad-leaved forest
Site classification and distribution
Improvement cutting, coppice forest system etc.
10. Discussion: How to manage Japanese forest in the future.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that students have completed the below courses or take the below courses together.
Forest Ecology, Forest Dendrology, Forest Environment, Practice on Forest Dendrology, Practice on Silviculture, Practice on Forest Health and Arboriculture.
In addition to 15 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. I assign preparations for lessons every class to develop an understanding of topics of our course.
Required Text(s) and Materials
The handouts will be provided.
References
Please see the syllabus in Japanese version.
Assessment/Grading
Homework (Quiz) before class (10%), report after class (40%), participate in the discussion (20%), final report (30%)
Note: Students who attend less than 70% of this course can not get this credit.
The past results
2020 S:10% A:71% B:19% C:0% D:0%
2019 S:15% A:43% B:25% C:15% D:2%
2018 S:22% A:30% B:24% C:14% D:10%
2017 S:7% A:58% B:22% C:10% D:3%
Message from instructor(s)
We recommend that students take the associated courses. Please study hard. When you do not understand contents of our lecture, you first look it up in the textbooks and references. If you still do not understand, please ask us with a comment card or by email.
Course keywords
Artificial confer forest, Management of broad-leaved forest, Public function of forest
Office hours
Please make an appointment by email.
Remarks 1
This course belongs to the packages of forest biology and forest environment. And this is a required course of the Forest Science program.
Remarks 2
We will show a detailed class schedule by the first class.
Information of the changes such as class schedules by covid-19, please confirm it in the Google Classroom of this subject.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/24/2021 7:44:29 PM