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Afforestation is the establishment of new forests by sowing seed or planting seedlings in the places where there was no forest before. According to the FAO (2015), afforestation is a conversion of the areas which are used for other purposes in forests or the increase of forest cover in the areas where a forest cover is less than 10%. At the same time, afforestation is considered as the emergence of a new forest on agricultural or burnt-over areas that lasts less than 10 years (FAO 2018). Also, the re-establishment of a forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as a forest is defined as reforestation (FAO 2016), not afforestation.
Silviculture in planted forests is a set of interventions carefully planned to be carried out in time and space in order to maintain a forest vitality and...
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Cvjetković, B., Mataruga, M. (2020). Afforestation and Its Climate Change Impact. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_113-1
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