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Silvicultural Approach for Fire Adapted Landscape

One of the significant ecological and socioeconomic issues of concern in forested habitats globally is the rising incidence and ferocity of forest fires that are fuelled by land pressures and climatic change. The potential of silviculture as an active response to the creation of climatically resilient forests is discussed in this paper. The ecological functions of fire as a nutrient cycler and habitat modifier and the practice of using adaptive silviculture technologies such as thinning, controlled burning, species selection, and construction of firebreaks are discussed. Restoration and adaptive silviculture as an active response to forest recovery and resilience under conditions of shifting climatic conditions receive high precedence. Methods used to link flame with hazards such as artificial intelligence-based clustering techniques and GIS-based risk zoning are discussed in this paper.