Ecological Forest Management Handbook (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Larocque, Guy R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of the Ecological Forest Management Handbook provides readers with basic principles of forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels. Updated and revised, it addresses numerous topics and includes new studies on ecological indicators, the carbos cycle, and ecosystem simulation models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040112922
• Artikelnr.: 72272811

Autorenporträt

Guy R. Larocque, PhD, is a research scientist for the Canadian Forest Service, a sector of Natural Resources Canada, at the Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Natural Resources Management at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada). Dr. Larocque is Associate Editor of Ecoscience. Until recently, he served on the editorial board of Ecological Modelling. He has published papers on productivity and succession, carbon cycles, uncertainty analysis, and the development of empirical, succession (gap), and process-based models for forest ecosystems and was Guest Editor of special issues in Ecological Modelling, Écoscience and Forests.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Forest Management Concepts. 1. Ecological Forestry Derived from
Knowledge on Natural Disturbances. 2. Triad Forest Management: Local Fix or
Global Solution? 3. Forest Wildlife Management. 4. External Drivers of
Changes Challenging Forestry: Political and Social Issues at Stake. 5.
Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management. Section II: Forest
Models. 6. Growth and Yield Models for Predicting Tree and Stand
Productivity. 7. Forest Succession Models. 8. Process-Based Models: A
Synthesis of Models and Applications to Address Environmental and
Management Issues. 9. Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological
Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions. 10. Modeling the
Impacts of Pest Damage: Case Studies for Conifers in British Columbia,
Canada. Section III: Ecological Indicators. 11. Assessing Abundance,
Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management. 12.
Considering Forest Biodiversity Indicators within the Pressure, State,
Benefits, and Response Framework. 13. Indicators of Forest Ecosystem
Integrity. 14. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management.
15. Indicating Forest Ecosystem and Stand Productivity: From Deductive to
Inductive Concepts. 16. Modeling Forest Floor Biomass and N Accumulations
and Related Turnover Rates. 17. Forest Ecosystem Health and Biotic
Disturbances: Perspectives on Indicators and Management Approaches.
Section IV: Addressing Ecological and Socioeconomic Issues. 18. Application
of Surface Modeling for Large Regions: A Case Study for Forest Carbon
Stocks in China. 19. Comprehensive Analysis of Land Tenure Effects on the
Structure and Services of Regional Forest Ecosystems. 20. Forest Management
and Climate Change: Adaptive Measures for the Temperate-Boreal Interface of
Eastern North America.