Forest Health

ISBN-13: 9780521766692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 404 str.

John D Castello

Opis

Elevates forest health from a fuzzy concept to an ecologically sound paradigm, providing instructions and exercises for forest sustainability assessments.

Recenzje

'… a terrific new contribution to forest health science … It is loaded with great information and well referenced … the assembly of authors takes a broad perspective and seeks to educate the reader by providing significant detail to reinforce the concepts in a global perspective.' Ecology

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Forest Health and Mortality: 1. The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest health S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello; 2. Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest L. Zhang, B. D. Rubin and P. D. Manion; 3. How do we do it, and what does it mean?: forest health case studies J. D. Castello, S. A. Teale and J. A. Cale; Part II. Forest Health and its Ecological Components: 4. Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic factors to a healthy forest S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello; 5. Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on forest structure and function D. Parry and S. A. Teale; 6. Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic factors, and mycorrhizae R. D. Briggs and T. R. Horton; 7. Earth, wind, and fire: abiotic factors and the impacts of global environmental change on forest health J. E. Lundquist, A. E. Camp, M. L. Tyrrell, S. J. Seybold, P. Cannon and D. J. Lodge; Part III. Forest Health and the Human Dimension: 8. Silviculture, forest management, and forest health: an axe does not a forester make C. A. Nowak, R. H. Germain and A. P. Drew; 9. Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest: can we have it all? S. P. Campbell, D. A. Patrick and J. P. Gibbs; 10. Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health monitoring M. Fierke, D. Nowak and R. Hofstetter; 11. What did we learn, and where does it leave us?: concluding thoughts J. D. Castello and S. A. Teale; Appendix A. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 2; Appendix B. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 3; Appendix C. Glossary of terms; Index.