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The article focuses on the impact of social dynamics on modern silvicultural treatments, emphasizing how forest management has evolved with changing societal values. Topics include the shift from commercial objectives to ecosystem services, the challenges of reconciling urban and rural perceptions of forests, and the influence of climate change and natural threats on forest management practices.

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The article reports that on June 24, 2021, the COIM in Aragon and the Center for Research and Agrifood Technology of Aragon (CITA) signed a letter of commitment to work together on the Project "Silvicultural Observatory of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in the face of climate change "global" submitted to the call for R+D+i Projects of the Teruel Investment Fund (FITE) of 2021, and to develop until 2024.

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The Maya have inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula preserving nature and culture through time both with high resilience and a strategy for multiple use of vegetation. Based on a literature review and sampling of 4000 m² of vegetation in the archaeological sites of Uxmal and Chichen Itza, potential production systems used in the past such as milpa for the maize and silvicultural systems with the use and management of multipurpose tree species, also was discussed how this production systems influenced during the collapse of this enigmatic culture at the end of the Classical period. Finally, was concluded that the combination of these two production systems cushioned environmental changes, both in the study sites and in the Northern Lowlands during the collapse and extending its fall toward Postclassic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article associates Airo-pai shamanistic vision and interpretation of dreams with their silvicultural management of yoco (Paullinia yoco), a wild vine rich in caffeine, endemic to the pleistocene refuge of Napo. According to Airo-pai ethnobotanic notions, yoco is a plant that «gives advice» to those who intake it. From the analysis of a shamanic chant of yajé (Banisteriopsis caapi), myths and interpretation of dreams, we show how the management of this species is conceived from contrasting perspectives: for celestial beings, yoco is a domesticated plant that grows in the celestial gardens; for cuacuiyó (yoco's «Master»), a seed-dispersing bird, yoco is its own plantation; and for terrestrial human beings, the collection of wild yoco is like hunting, associated in dreams with the nocturnal curassow (Nothocrax urumutum). This study thus illustrates the relevance of a perspectivist approach to understand the ethnobotanic lore underlying the management and extraction of a wild species of ritual and practical importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work was carried out to evaluate the effect of two silvicultural treatments on the composition and structure of forest ecosystems in the "Sierra de la Candela" {Mountain range) near Tepehuanes, Durango. The analysis was done comparing two experimental plots managed under different silvicultural practices, the first with thinning and the second using selective logging. Several neighborhood-based indices were used via the so-called "structural group of five trees" sampling method. The results obtained in the study show that the tree species mixture and diversity is greater in the plot where the selective logging was applied, compared to that treated by thinning. Both plots present a clumped spatial tree distribution. On the other hand, the size differentiation results were not significantly different in relation to the dimensional tree structure of the studied plots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]