Analysis Of Temperate Forest Ecosystems

Author : D.E. Reichle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642855870

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Analysis of Temperate Forest Ecosystems by D.E. Reichle Pdf

A series of concise books, each by one or several authors, will provide prompt, world-wide information on approaches to analyzing ecological systems and their interacting parts. Syntheses of results in turn will illustrate the effectiveness, and the limitations, of current knowledge. This series aims to help overcome the fragmen tation of our understanding about natural and managed landscapes and water- about man and the many other organisms which depend on these environments. We may sometimes seem complacent that our environment has supported many civilizations fairly well - better in some parts of the Earth than in others. Modern technology has mastered some difficulties but creates new ones faster than we anticipate. Pressures of human and other animal populations now highlight complex ecological problems of practical importance and theoretical scientific interest. In every climatic-biotic zone, changes in plants, soils, waters, air and other resources which support life are accelerating. Such changes engulf not only regions already crowded or exploited. They spill over into more natural areas where contrasting choices for future use should remain open to our descendents-where Nature's own balances and imbalances can be interpreted by imaginative research, and need to be.

Author : David E. Reichle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : OCLC:1123445465

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Analysis of temperate forest ecosystems by David E. Reichle Pdf

Analysus of an ecosystem. Primary producers. Consumer organisms. Decomposer population. Nutrient cycling. Hydrologic cycles.

Author : Richard H. Waring,Steven W. Running
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080546080

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Forest Ecosystems by Richard H. Waring,Steven W. Running Pdf

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems. Further understanding is given to techniques to explore the changes in climatic cycles, the implications of wide-scale pollution, fire and other ecological disturbances that have a global effect. The inclusion of models, equations, graphs, and tabular examples provides readers with a full understanding of the methods and techniques. Includes a revised section on important advances in regional scale analyses Features an update to global scale analyses including revised color images Provides a detailed comparison of predicted vs. observed tree diversity across 65 eco-regions

Author : Richard H. Waring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015000410939

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Forests, Fresh Perspectives from Ecosystem Analysis by Richard H. Waring Pdf

Author : Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : WISC:89122298862

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Analysis of the Structure and Function of Ecosystems in the Deciduous Forest Biome by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pdf

Author : Russell K. Monson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461475007

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Ecology and the Environment by Russell K. Monson Pdf

In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies. In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology. Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed. As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization. This book is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.

Author : Robert L. Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951000051824W

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Analysis of Coniferous Forest Ecosystems in the Western United States by Robert L. Edmonds Pdf

Author : Elgene O. Box,Kazue Fujiwara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319012612

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Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests around the Northern Hemisphere by Elgene O. Box,Kazue Fujiwara Pdf

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "southern", mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America. Climatic analysis has shown that these forests extend from typical temperate climates to well into the warm-temperate zone, in areas where winters are a bit too cold for the ‘zonal’ evergreen broad-leaved forests normally expected in that climatic zone. This book is the first to recognize and describe these southern deciduous forests as an alternative to the evergreen forests of the warm-temperate zone. This warm-temperate zone will become more important under global warming, since it represents the contested transition between deciduous and evergreen forests and between tropical and temperate floristic elements. This book is dedicated to the memory of Tatsuō Kira, the imaginative Japanese ecologist who first noticed and described this general zonation exception and who proposed the name warm-temperate deciduous forest.

Author : David E. Reichle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981-03-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521225086

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Dynamic Properties of Forest Ecosystems by David E. Reichle Pdf

This volume brings together different 'schools' of ecological investigation of woodlands. After a description of the structure and floristic composition of the research sites, involving a comparison of boreal, temperate, Mediterranean and tropical forest, the study goes on to consider the dynamic aspects of the woodland formation.

Author : Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461247401

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Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone by Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt Pdf

The synthesis presented in this volume is a direct outgrowth of our ten-year FORMAP Project (Forest Mapping Across Eastern North America from 20,000 yr B.P. to the Present). Many previous research efforts in paleoecology have used plant-fossil evidence as proxy information for primarily geologic or climatic reconstructions or as a bio stratigraphic basis for correlation of regional events. In contrast, in this book, we deal with ecological questions that require a holistic perspective that integrates the interactions of biota with their dynamically changing environments over time scales up to tens of thousands of years. In the FORMAP Project, our major research objective has been to use late-Quaternary plant-ecological data sets to evaluate long-term patterns and processes in forest de velopment. In order to accomplish this objective, we have prepared subcontinent-scale calibrations that quantitatively relate the production and dispersal of arboreal pollen to dominance in the vegetation for the major tree types of eastern North America. Quantification of pollen-vegetation relationships provides a basis for developing quan titative plant-ecological data sets that allow further ecological analysis of both individual taxa and forest communities through time. Application of these calibrations to fossil pollen records for interpreting forest history thus represents a fundamental step beyond traditional summaries based upon pollen percentages.

Author : Paul Hanson,Stan D. Wullschleger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387003096

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North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes by Paul Hanson,Stan D. Wullschleger Pdf

Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory together with other Federal and University scientists conducted a large-scale climatic change experiment at the Walker Branch Watershed in Tennessee, a model upland hardwood forest in North America. This volume synthesizes mechanisms of forest ecosystem response to changing hydrologic budgets associated with climatic change drivers. The authors explain the implications of changes at both the plant and stand levels, and they extrapolate the data to ecosystem-level responses, such as changes in nutrient cycling, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. In analyzing data, they also discuss similarities and differences with other temperate deciduous forests. Source data for the experiment has been archived by the authors in the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (CDIAC) for future analysis and modeling by independent investigators.

Author : Margaret Lowman,H. Bruce Rinker
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780124575530

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Forest Canopies by Margaret Lowman,H. Bruce Rinker Pdf

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently. This book represents an authoritative synthesis of data, anecdotes, case studies, observations, and recommendations from researchers and educators who have risked life and limb in their advocacy of the High Frontier. With innovative rope techniques, cranes, walkways, dirigibles, and towers, they finally gained access to the rich biodiversity that lives far above the forest floor and the emerging science of canopy ecology. In this new edition of Forest Canopies, nearly 60 scientists and educators from around the world look at the biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation of forest canopy ecosystems. Comprehensive literature list State-of-the-art results and data sets from current field work Foremost scientists in the field of canopy ecology Expanded collaboration of researchers and international projects User-friendly format with sidebars and case studies Keywords and outlines for each chapter

Author : Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Christian Körner,Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540265993

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Forest Diversity and Function by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Christian Körner,Ernst-Detlef Schulze Pdf

One of the central research themes in ecology is evaluating the extent to which biological richness is necessary to sustain the Earth's system and the functioning of individual ecosystems. In this volume, for the first time, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forests is thoroughly explored. The text examines the multiple effects of tree diversity on productivity and growth, biogeochemical cycles, animals, pests, and disturbances. Further, the importance of diversity at different scales, ranging from stand management to global issues, is considered. The authors provide both extensive reviews of the existing literature and own datasets. The volume is ideally suited for researchers and practitioners involved in ecosystem management and the sustainable use of forest resources.

Author : Tohru Nakashizuka,Yoosuke Matsumoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431678793

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Diversity and Interaction in a Temperate Forest Community by Tohru Nakashizuka,Yoosuke Matsumoto Pdf

The studies in the Ogawa Forest Reserve (OPR) were initiated by a group of plant ecologists and gradually expanded into a comprehensive project covering various aspects of biology, soil science, and silviculture. The project was integrated as part of the Forest Ecosystem Team under the BIO-COSMOS Program funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. As the coordinators of the Forest Ecosystem Team, we are pleased that reports of the long-term studies carried out in the OFR are being published in this first volume on Japanese ecosystems in the Ecological Studies series. Scientists and researchers have made numerous contributions to the field of forest ecology during more than 10 years of studies in the OFR. Two reasons can be cited for the success of the project: scientists from various disciplines concen trated on a single target forest ecosystem, and the research continued over a rela tively long term. It is now recognized that ecological processes include compli cated mechanisms supported by interactions among organisms and large temporal variations. The researchers in the OFR project were motivated by their interest in the history of ecosystems and the interactions of diverse creatures in the forest.

Author : Bernard C. Patten
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483262741

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Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology by Bernard C. Patten Pdf

Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology, Volume IV continues the organization begun in Volume III to document a meeting, Modeling and Analysis of Ecosystems, held at the University of Georgia on 1-3 March 1973. Several chapters are considerably expanded over their original concept, and several others are included which were not part of the symposium. The book is organized into five parts. Part I contains chapters on estuarine-marine ecosystems. Part II presents models of several terrestrial ecosystems. Part III has chapters devoted to human aspects of ecology. Part IV considers special problems of ecosystem modeling, namely linear versus nonlinear models, aggregation, and validation. Part V, the most extensive section, describes theory in ecosystem analysis. The book’s chapters demonstrate the current scope of systems ecology—its past and present emphasis on parts and mechanisms in simulation modeling, and its movement toward systems analysis and new, more formal consideration of wholes in theory. They make clear that although the systems approach is young in ecology, it has substantially enriched the science both methodologically and conceptually.