Ho Duc Soa, Tran Ke Lam, Nguyen Thanh Xuan FSIV Natural forests play a very important role in human life. Apart from timber, firewood and other forest products supply they do play a role in providing shelter belt, soil erosion and leaching control, regulating the climate and protecting the environment. Natural forests have been and are being seriously devastated, especially from 1975 now. According to 1999 statistics the area of natural forests in our country is about 9.44 million … [Read more...]

Tran Van Con Tropical Forestry Centre - FSIV I. Introduction A challenge of the researcher involved in the selection of forest tree species is to find out the relations of the plants characteristics to the ecological factors of the sites on which the plants are going to be grown and then to estimate the possible performances of the species to yield the expected economic and social outputs. The task is usually not easy, because a lot trees that thrive well in natural forests, do not do … [Read more...]

Hoang Xuan Ty and Nguyen Duc Minh Forest Science Institute of Vietnam I. Introduction For 50 years, the forests of Vietnam have been experiencing a severe spiraling down of both their resource and quality, leading to poor ecological conditions for forest tree growth and environmental disruption. Therefore, parallel with forest - restoration-orientated protection and enrichment planting, the establishment of new plantations has become a “must” in the forestry subsector, in … [Read more...]