**5. Silvicultural bases for the cultivation and management of woody Fabaceae for the future**

As for their use and practical use, tree legumes can be classified into three distinct groups: (1) trees that produce wood and miscellany of by-products such as firewood, oil, resin, tannin, coal and cellulose; (2) forage and human food trees; and (3) trees that aid soil fertility in agricultural practices such as the establishment of retention ranges, shelter areas, erosion control and increase of N status in the soil in agricultural rotation models or in rotation systems whose benefit is the service performed by trees to the environment.

Regardless of the choice of species, basic forestry knowledge is indispensable. Among the Fabaceae there is a wide variety of fruit forms, being possible to define
