A brief discussion

Forest Ecology:
Forest ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other, interact with the environment of a forest ecosystem.

It consists of following two branches.

1: Tree Ecology or Forest Autecology
2: Forest Synecology

1: Tree Ecology or Forest Autecology: It refers to the study of relationships that exist between an individual forest tree and environmental factors or the study of response of a tree to environmental stresses.

It generally includes discussion on following two topics i.e; environmental factors and adaptations.

1: Environmental Factors: Like other living organisms trees are alos influenced by environmental factors. These factors are too numerous to be counted. Each one of these factors have three levels. Minimum level is one below which trees can not survive and maximum level is one above which trees cannot survive. Optimum level is ideal and at this level trees growth is maximum. The importance of these factors keeps vary. It depends on tree species, their age or growth stage and the season of the year etc.
These factors are grouped into following five classes:-

(1) Climatic Factors (light, temperature, humidity and precipitation etc.)
(2) Edaphic factors (soil, texture, structure drainage and available nutrients.
(3) Physiographic Factors( Slope, aspect, altitude, latitude etc.)
(4) Biotic Factors (trees, crops, insects, livestock, man, etc.)
(5) Pyric Factors (wild fire, controlled burning)