Aimlee D. Laderman (ed.)

Coastally Restricted Forests

Herausgeber: Laderman, Aimlee D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A few conifers are found in nature only in narrow, discontinuous bands bordering continental margins. Despite their maritime location, these trees cannot thrive in saline waters and soils. What enables them to grow in challenging habitats? Why don't these species naturalize inland? What characteristics allow them to succeed only near salt water? A strange combination of qualities is seen: the trees are catastrophe-dependent, stress-tolerant, with broad niche potential, but are poor competitors in "easy" sites. They all possess moisture-conserving features usually associated with arid lands, although they grow in regions of high humidity and frequent fogs. This volume is the first to assemble and compare information on widely dispersed coastal forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Authorities on each system explore the properties of these unusual trees and their habitats, and formulate guidelines for their appropriate management and protection. The thirty-six contributing authors include natural resource managers and regulators, ecologists, lumbermen, geneticists, botanists, and paleontologists. The book draws from work on three continents, eight countries, and twenty-three states of the Unites States. One half of the volume is devoted to the seven highly prized, commercially valuable Chamaecyparis species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 166mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780195075670
• ISBN-10: 0195075676
• Artikelnr.: 22021903

Autorenporträt

Aimlee D. Laderman, Lecturer and Research Affiliate at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, is Director of the Swamp Research Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1.: Aimlee D. Laderman: Introduction: Freshwater forests of
continental margins: overview and synthesis
* Part I. Chamaecyparis (False-cypress) Studies
* 2.: Donald B. Zobel: Chamaecyparis forests: a comparative analysis
* Pacific Rim
* 3.: Paul E. Hennon, Charles G. Shaw III, and Everett M. Hansen:
Reproduction and forest decline of Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
(yellow cedar) in southeast Alaska, USA
* 4.: Glen B. Dunsworth: Problems and research needs for Chamaecyparis
nootkatensis forest management in coastal British Columbia, Canada
* 5.: John H. Russell: Genecology of Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
* 6.: Mel Greenup: Managing Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana (ort Orford cedar)
to control the root disease caused by Phytophthora lateralis in the
Pacific Northwest, USA
* 7.: Shin-Ichi Yamamato: Regeneration ecology of Chamaecyparis obtusa
and C. Pisifera (Hinoki and Sawara cypress), Japan
* Atlantic Coast, North America
* 8.: Raymond M. Sheffield, Thomas W. Birch, William H. McWilliams, and
John B. Tansey: Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar) in the
United States: extent and characterization using broad-scale
inventory data
* 9.: Lucinda McWeeney: Reconstruction of the Mashantucket Pequot cedar
swamp paleoenvironment using plant using plant macrofossils, New
England, USA
* 10.: Dwight L. Stolzfus and Ralph E. Good: Plant community structure
in Chamaecyparis Thyoides swamps in the New Jersey Pinelands
Biosphere Reserve, USA
* 11.: Ronald W. Phillips, Joseph H. Hughes, Marilyn A. Buford, William
E. Gardner, Fred M. White, and Clair G. Williams: Atlantic white
cedar in North Carolina, USA: a brief history and current
regeneration effots
* 12.: Robert T. Eckert: Population genetic analysis of Chamaecyparis
thyoides in New Hampshire and Maine, USA
* Part II. Systems with Diverse Dominants, Systems not dominated by
Chamaecyparis species
* 13.: Characteristics of the soil and water table in an Alnus japonica
(Japanese alder)
* 14.: Peter A. Khomentovsky: Pinus pumila (Siberian dwarf pine) on the
Kamchatka Peninsula, northeast Asia: ecology of seed production
* 15.: Robert Ornduff: The Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood) forest
of the Pacific coast, USA
* 16.: Ingrid Olmsted and Rafael Duran Garcia: Distribution and ecology
of low freshwater coastal forests of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
* 17.: William H. McWilliams, John B. Tansey, Thomas R. Birch, and Mark
H. Hansen: Taxodium-Nyssa (cypress-tupelo) forest along the coast of
southern United States
* 18.: William H. Conner: Impact of hurricanes on forests of the
Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, USA
* 19.: William H. Conner and John W. Day, JR.,: The effect of sea level
rise on coastal wetland forests: the Mississippi Delta, USA, as a
model
* 20.: Wolfgang Grosse, Hans B. Buchel, and Sibylle Latterman: Root
aeration in wetland trees and its ecophysiological significance
* Part III: Management and Research
* 21.: Aimlee D. Laderman and Rachel L. Donnette: Coastal forest
management and reseach