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Tree planting is the process of transplanting tree seedlings, generally for forestry, land reclamation, or landscaping purposes. It differs from the transplantation of larger trees in arboriculture and from the lower-cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds .
Coconut palm, a common multipurpose tree. Multipurpose trees or multifunctional trees are trees that are deliberately grown and managed for more than one output. They may supply food in the form of fruit, nuts, or leaves that can be used as a vegetable; while at the same time supplying firewood, adding nitrogen to the soil, or supplying some other combination of multiple outputs.
A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest, timber plantation or tree farm is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually by planting one type of tree as a monoculture forest. The term tree farm also is used to refer to tree nurseries and Christmas tree farms.
Earth offers enough room to plant an additional 0.9 billion ha of tree canopy cover. [4] Planting and protecting them would sequester 205 billion tons of carbon [4] which is about 20 years of current global carbon emissions. [5] This level of sequestration would represent about 25% of the atmosphere's current carbon pool. [4]
Stump harvesting – removal of tree stumps either for biomass or to free up space in the soil; Drum chopping – knocking down small trees and brush to clear the ground for planting; Planting. Broadcast seeding – scattering of seed either by hand or mechanically over a relatively large area
An arborist practicing tree care: using a chainsaw to fell a eucalyptus tree in a park at Kallista, Victoria.. Arboriculture (/ ˈ ɑːr b ər ɪ ˌ k ʌ l tʃ ər, ɑːr ˈ b ɔːr-/) [1] is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
A pine plantation in the United States A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest, timber plantation or tree farm is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually by planting one type of tree as a monoculture forest. The term tree farm also is used to refer to tree nurseries and Christmas tree farms. Plantation ...
Planting more trees may cause the stand to become overstocked, and it will not have the maximum growth potential. When there is a very understocked stand, there are two options for helping the stand. Either plant new trees in the stand as an underplant or clearcut the stand and restart by planting all new trees. [6] If there is a fully stocked ...