In most cases, we can expect to find dominant
and predominant beeches present in the overstorey of
the stands from the very beginning. This represents a
fundamental difference from the classic silviculture
of oaks.
The regulation of inter-specific competition during
cleanings and thinnings often necessitates great
effort to maintain such a high number of oaks required
in the overstorey to justify our speaking of it
in terms of the silviculture of oaks and not of the
silviculture of beeches with individual oaks mixed in