本书主要内容包括土壤学、林木种子、林木育苗与树木学、森林生态学、遗传育种、森林经理、森林培育和3S技术等方面,分别选定若干主题。每课主要由课文,相应参考译文,阅读材料组成。为了加深学生对课文的理解,每课都配有相应的阅读理解资料,而阅读材料是与课文相关的文章,是课文的拓展部分,以加深学生对一些专业理论、观点的全面理解。
本书旨在帮助读者提高林学专业英语文献的阅读理解能力,同时加强专业英语的翻译、写作、交流能力。另一方面,通过对本教材的学习和阅读,也可以巩固和拓展读者的专业知识。
本书可作为林学及其相关专业学生的英语教材,也可供上述相关专业的教师、科研人员参考。

Part One Seed and Seeding
Lesson 1 Seed Development and Harvest
Lesson 2 Seed Treatment
Lesson 3 Seed Storage
Part Two Dendrology
Lesson 4 Tree Identification
Lesson 5 Chinese Chestnut and Loblolly Pine
Lesson 6 Seed and Vegetative Propagation
Lesson 7 Cultural Practices for Producing Longleaf Pine Seedlings in Containers
Lesson 8 Seedling Quality Testing
Part Three Soil
Lesson 9 Soil
Lesson 10 Soil Physical Properties
Lesson 11 Chemical Properties of Forest Soils-soil Acidity
Lesson 12 Soil Erosion
Part Four Ecology
Lesson 13 The Characters of Ecosystem
Lesson 14 Community
Lesson 15 Physical Environment of the Forest Ecosystem
Lesson 16 Population Ecology
Part Five Genetics and Breeding
Lesson 17 Early Selection in Trees
Lesson 18 Great Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Lesson 19 Qualitative Traits of Almond
Lesson 20 Effects of Colonization Process on Genetic Diversity: Differences between Annual Plants and Tree Species
Lesson 21 Populus: a Model Tree in Forestry
Part Six Silviculture
Lesson 22 Stratification
Lesson 23 Fitting Species to the Site
Lesson 24 Tree Planting
Lesson 25 Thinning and Its Objectives
Lesson 26 Pruning
Part Seven Forest Management
Lesson 27 Forest Inventory
Lesson 28 Structure and Growth of Stands
Part Eight 3S Technology
Lesson 29 Remote Sensing
Lesson 30 Atmospheric Effects on Remote Sensing
Lesson 31 Geographic Information Systems
Lesson 32 GIS Softwares
Lesson 33 Global Positioning System