Thinning

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Thinning

Thinning is a term used in agricultural sciences to mean the removal of some plant

Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s, or parts of plants, to make room for the growth of others.

Forestry
Thinning in forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests....
is the selective removal of trees, primarily undertaken to improve the growth rate or health of the remaining trees. This may be done to make the stand more profitable in an upcoming final felling

Clearcutting

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Thinning is a term used in agricultural sciences to mean the removal of some plant

Plant

Forestry

Thinning in forestry

Forestry

Clearcutting

Clearcutting or clearfelling is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all of all trees in a harvest area are cut down. It is a controversial practice....
. Overcrowded trees are under competitive stress from their neighbors. Thinning may be done to increase the resistance of the stand to environmental stress such as drought, insect infestation or extreme temperature.

A thinning in which the trees removed have little or no economic value is called a pre-commercial thinning. Ecological Thinning

Ecological thinning

Thinning, a silviculture technique used in forest management, is a stand manipulation operation designed to modify tree growth. Where trees are managed under a commercial regime, competition is reduced by removing adjacent stems that exhibit less favourable timber quality potential....
is a variant of this being trialled for use in forest conservation in Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
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In general, there are 4 major thinning types: High/Crown thinning (thinning from above), Low thinning (thinning from below), Selection thinning, and Mechanical thinning

Agriculture

In agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
and gardening

Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing ornamental or useful plants. Ornamental plants are normally grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance....
, thinning is the selective removal of flowers, fruits, shoots, and seedling

Seedling

A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed....
s or young plants to allow adequate space for the remaining organs/plants to grow efficiently. In large-scale farming, techniques like precision seeding

Precision seeding

In agriculture, precision seeding is a method of seeding that involves placing seed at a precise spacing and depth. This is in contrast to broadcast seeding, where seed is scattered over an area....
and transplanting

Transplanting

In agriculture and gardening, transplanting or replanting is the technique of moving a plant from one location to another. Most often this takes the form of starting a plant from seed in optimal conditions, such as in a greenhouse or protected nursery bed, then replanting it in another, usually outdoor, growing location....
can eliminate the need for thinning by starting plants at their optimum spacing. On a smaller scale, such as a home vegetable

Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
garden

Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials....
, thinning can be used as a way to make maximum use of space for certain crops. For example, beet

Beet

The beet is a plant in the Amaranthaceae. It is best known its numerous cultivated varieties, the most well known of which is probably the red root vegetable known as the garden beet....
s, carrot

Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s, green onions

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
and others can be planted densely, and then thinned to make room for continued growth of the plants left in the soil, and also as a harvest of baby vegetables (beet greens, baby carrots, baby onions).

Digital Geometry

In digital geometry

Digital geometry

Digital geometry deals with discrete space sets considered to be digitizing scale model or s of objects of the 2D or 3D Euclidean space.Simply put, digitizing is replacing an object by a discrete set of its points....
, thinning is the transformation of a digital image

Digital image

A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional using ones and zeros . Depending on whether or not the is fixed, it may be of vector graphics or raster graphics type....
into a simplified, but topologically equivalent image.