Systemic silviculture - DNA Cascais

Notwithstanding the progress in the field of ecology and the
evolution of forestry thought,
silviculture, forest management and economics are still moving
ahead according to the canons of linear processes and the
mechanistic, reductionist paradigm.
Traditional forest management, based on the theory of the
normal forest and on Rupf’s (1960) wake effect,
Kielwassertheorie, derived from Dietrich’s (1941) “theory of
functions” does not meet the criteria of conservation or recovery
of biological diversity.