Biological automation

In forestry, biological automation refers to the primary use of biological processes to achieve silvicultural goals in order to reduce the use of work and energy.

Examples are the preference of natural regeneration over the "artificial" planting of crops or the temporary allowance of natural succession on open areas that have arisen in order to later enrich the pioneer forests with desired, site-appropriate species that can be used for forestry. Complex cultivation measures can also be reduced in this way: The straight and fine-branched growth of young trees, which is desirable for the forestry, can also be achieved by leaving, for example, approaching birch trees, which are only removed when they are one of the trees, instead of a high initial number of plants and subsequent thinning of the stand seriously press desired future trees for forestry production.