silvics means the study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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- The study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.“Silviculture may be defined* as the art of producing and tending a forest; the application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest. Silvics deals with the fundamental laws underlying the growth and development of single trees and of the forest as a biological unit.”