RESEARCH LINES 

Silviculture and Forest Resource Management - aims to develop studies related to the implementation and management of natural and planted forests, of traditional or alternative species, aimed at generating products and services of forest origin. 

Conservation and Restoration of Forest Ecosystems - aims to develop knowledge related to natural forest ecosystems in Southern Brazil, encompassing aspects of the quantification of natural forests and their dynamics, recovery, restoration and environmental services of forest resources. 

REQUIRED COURSES 

Master's students must complete at least 16 credits in mandatory subjects and 8 credits in optional subjects, included in the course's subject schedule. The development and defense of the dissertation is equivalent to 6 credits, totaling 30 academic credits towards completion of the course 

Subjects - common for both areas of concentration of the course 

Biometrics and Forestry Experimentation - 45 hours/class

Planning and analysis of complete and fractional factorial experiments. Assumptions of variance analysis: additivity, normality, independence and homoscedasticity. Data transformation. Analysis of the effect of fixed and random factors. Multiple comparisons of means. Correlation and covariance. Simple and multiple linear regression. Regression model indicators. Confidence intervals for coefficients, mean and forecast. Response surfaces, stationary point location and optimization. Non-linear regression: Gauss-Newton algorithm, gradient descent and Levenberg-Marquardt. 

Research Applied to Forestry Engineering - 30 hours/class 

Preparation and execution of scientific research projects; writing technical-scientific reports: monographs and dissertations. 

Seminars - 30 hours/class

Presentation and discussion of topics specific to the program's lines of research. 

Disciplines for the silviculture and forest resources management line of research 

Silvicultural Systems - 45 hours/class

Implantation of forests. Natural regeneration. Coppice. Forest conversion and enrichment systems. Agroforestry Systems. Quality of forestry operations. 

Natural Forest Management - 45 hours/class

Forest management as a conservation and socio-economic development strategy. Primary forests and secondary forests. Succession, increment and dynamics. Diversity and rarity. Ecological aspects of decision making. Reduced impact exploration. Silvicultural Treatments. Sustainable production. Community management and multiple use. 

Forest Plantation Management and Performance Operations - 45 hours/class

Impact of forestry operations on the production of forest plantations: Fertilization, competition control, pruning, thinning. Impacts of forestry operations on wood quality. Assessment of forest stands using assortment analysis. Production forecast. Site indexes and production tables. 

Disciplines for the conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems research line 

Vegetation Analysis - 45 hours/class

Vegetation and classification systems. Sampling methods. Vegetation structure: analysis and understanding. Richness, diversity and dendrometric descriptors indices. Grouping and ordering. Floristic variation, functional diversity and spatial autocorrelation. 

Biological Invasion Control - 45 hours/class

Introduction: biological invasions and biological control; Biological invasions as a cause of environmental pollution; Forms of prevention; Biological control agents: Types of biological control; Ecological bases of biological control; Plant biological invasions and their biological control. 

Ecosystem Recovery - 45 hours/class

Historical-cultural contextualization of environmental degradation; ecological succession; forest-soil-water relationship; soil degradation processes; erosion; management and conservation practices; planning for sustainable use of environments; restoration and revegetation of ecosystems; landscape restoration; indication of species; case studies. 

ELECTIVE COURSES 

• Genetics of Forest Populations - 45 hours/class
• Restoration Forestry - 45 hours/class
• Forest Pathology - 45 hours/class
• Brazil’s environmental challenges - 45 hours/class
• Large-Scale Forest Inventories - 45 hours/class
• Basic Statistics - 45 hours/class
• Applied Multivariate Statistics - 45 hours/class
• Improvement and Forest Genetic Resources - 45 hours/class
• Forest Biotechnology - 45 hours/class
• Environmental Entomology - 45 hours/class
• Plant Propagation - 45 hours/class
• Water – Wood and Drying Relations - 45 hours/class