Impacts of Forest Harvesting on Long-Term Site Productivity

ISBN-13: 9789401045544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 371 str.

W. J. Dyck; D. W. Cole; N. B. Comerford

Opis

This book is a synthesis of knowledge on the impacts of harvesting on long-term site productivity, stemming from information gathered from the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Agreement Project on Environmental Impacts of Intensive Harvesting. Annual workshops during the project have produced much new and important information and the work of over 150 collaborators on the project has been carefully synthesised into this book.

Spis treści

Preface. Foreword. Reasons for concern over impacts of harvesting; Strategies for determining consequences of harvesting and associated practices on long-term productivity; Evidence for long-term productivity change as provided by field trials; Impacts of harvesting and associated practices on off-site environmental quality; Identifying key processes affecting long-term site productivity; Computer simulation models and expert systems for predicting productivity decline; Site classification: its role in predicting forestland responses to management practices; Management systems for sustainable productivity; Designing long-term site productivity experiments; Review of measurement techniques in site productivity studies; Impacts on harvesting on long-term site quality: future research. Index.