Silviculture term was firstly used in a study called “Anweisung zum Waldbau” (”Directives for Silviculture”) which was published in Dresden by von Heinrich Cotta who is one of the Pioneering forest sciencist. “Silviculture” term, which is composed of Latin words “Silva” meaning forest and “Culture” corresponding to growing, signifies “forest cultivation” and have been accepted in our language today.

Scientific definition of silviculture

Silviculture is a discipline that is dealing with the management of forests according to the sustainability principle and in a planned way, forest tending, forest regeneration, preserving of forest as it is existed or in accordance with its vital structure, establishing new forest with suitable afforestation techniques and management of biodiversity in the forest based upon ecological, biological and sociological principles dictated by forest site conditions

Main study areas of Silviculture

Basic Principles of Silviculture

Silviculture Technique

Forest Tending

Seed and Nursery Technique

Afforestation Techniques

Urban Forestry

Silvicultural Planning

Breeding of Forest Trees

Seed Technology

Wetland Ecology

“Silviculture is a science which directs forest growing, acts together with nature not against it”

One of the most important activities of silviculture is to direct interference under tending cuttings in the stands within forests. Production capacity of the forests can be changed with forest tending works. Stem cross-section on the side, the effect of thinning operation is seen in a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand which was growth densely from the beginning. As it is seen when the cross-section was examined, annual ring widths increased in visible scale as a result of the reaction of trees to the thinning.

“Regeneration of forest in a natural way is the most beautiful and pleasing event for a forester”

Prof.Dr. Hans Leıbundgut (1909-1993) (a pioneering of silviculture)

The academic staff of silviculture department

Head of silviculture department: Doç. Dr. M. Nuri ÖNER