epidometría

English translation: silviculture

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Spanish term or phrase:epidometría
English translation:silviculture
Entered by: Luis Medina

13:54 Sep 1, 2005
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Social Sciences - Forestry / Wood / Timber
Spanish term or phrase: epidometría
Dear colleagues:

I've been looking for this term but I haven`t had any luck so far. I understand that "epidometría" is a disciplione whose aim is to measure the growth of trees.

Thank you in advance,
Luis Medina
Luis Medina
Mexico
Local time: 16:20
silviculture
Explanation:
Silviculture
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Definition
Silviculture is the art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable basis.

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Anabel Martínez
Spain
Local time: 23:20
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Thank you Anabel, I gree.
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4 +1silviculture
Anabel Martínez
3epipedometry
Patrikia
2auxology
Mirella Soffio


  

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epidometría
silviculture


Explanation:
Silviculture
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Definition
Silviculture is the art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable basis.




    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silviculture
Anabel Martínez
Spain
Local time: 23:20
Native speaker of: Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you Anabel, I gree.

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epidometría
epipedometry


Explanation:
I don't have an answer, but it sounds like something more specific than silviculture. I did a search of epidometria in google, and several of the hits were forestry academic programs that listed epidometria as one of their courses.
For example, the Universidad de San Luis (Argentina) has a
curso de Dasonomía, describes its
UNIDAD XIV EPIDOMETRIA
Evolución del crecimiento individual. El área basal en función del sitio, la especie y la edad. Efecto del número de individuos por unidad de superficie sobre el área basal y el volumen. Efecto del manejo sobre la producción en volumen. Efecto del raleo sobre el Incremento corriente anual (ICA) y sobre el incremento medio anual (IMA). Duración del turno de corta. Factores de crecimiento. Análisis de los anillos de crecimiento.

(dasonomía, Estudio de la conservación, cultivo y aprovechamiento de los montes—RAE)

The closest I could find in English was
Epipedometry, n. [Gr. 'epi`pedos on the ground, level ('epi` + pe`don ground) + -metry.] (Geom.)
The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

May I suggest writing to a forestry college? People are usually very generous when one approaches them with questions of this sort.

¡Buena suerte!


    Reference: http://www.forestrycolleges.com/links.html
Patrikia
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epidometría
auxology


Explanation:
"auxology" is the science of growth: The term is usually referred to human growth, but at least here:

http://www.efi.fi/members/members/romania/icas

it's used in the context of Forest Management.
The page has links to various Forestry Departments/Institutions in the USA that you could contact to research the issue.

Mirella Soffio
Italy
Local time: 23:20
Native speaker of: Italian
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