Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Michael G. Weber
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231503082

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Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances by Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Michael G. Weber Pdf

What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing a range of geographic perspectives from across Canada and the United States, this book looks at the escalating public debate on the viability of natural disturbance emulation for sustaining forest landscapes from the perspective of policymakers, forestry professionals, academics, and conservationists. This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framework for examining the ambiguities inherent in emulating natural forest landscape disturbance. It acknowledges the divergent expectations that practitioners face and offers a balanced view of the promises and challenges associated with applying this emerging forest management paradigm. The first section examines foundational concepts, addressing questions of what emulation involves and what ecological reasoning substantiates it. These include a broad overview, a detailed review of emerging forest management paradigms and their global context, and an examination of the ecological premise for emulating natural disturbance. This section also explores the current understanding of natural disturbance regimes, including the two most prevalent in North America: fire and insects. The second section uses case studies from a wide geographical range to address the characterization of natural disturbances and the development of applied templates for their emulation through forest management. The emphasis on fire regimes in this section reflects the greater focus that has traditionally been placed on understanding and managing fire, compared with other forms of disturbance, and utilizes several viewpoints to address the lessons learned from historical disturbance patterns. Reflecting on current thinking in the field, immediate challenges, and potential directions, the final section moves deeper into the issues of practical applications by exploring the expectations for and feasibility of emulating natural disturbance through forest management.

Author : Ontario Forest Research Institute
Publisher : Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ecological disturbances
ISBN : MINN:31951D02067218D

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Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances by Ontario Forest Research Institute Pdf

This publication is a compendium of summaries of presentations from a symposium that discussed the concepts, challenges, and potential consequences of implementing emulation of natural forest landscape disturbances at the landscape level in forest management. The first set of presentations covers such topics as predicting natural forest disturbances, predicting fire regimes and forest insect disturbance regimes, silvicultural concepts, the ecological basis for emulation, boreal forest management, and the economics of emulation forestry. The second set presents case studies from across northern & central North America to illustrate some practical applications of the concepts behind emulation of natural forest landscape disturbances.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Michael G. Weber
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231129165

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Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances by Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Michael G. Weber Pdf

"This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framework for examining the ambiguities inherent in emulating natural forest landscape disturbance. It acknowledges the divergent expectations that practitioners face and offers a balanced-view of the promises and challenges associated with applying this emerging forest management paradigm."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02398751N

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Forest Management Guide for Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation by Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources Pdf

Author : Lisa J. Buse,Ajith H. Perera,Robert Gordon Routledge,Ontario Forest Research Institute
Publisher : Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D02183894A

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An Analysis of Literature on Natural Fire Disturbances in Relation to Ontario's Forest Management Guide for Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation by Lisa J. Buse,Ajith H. Perera,Robert Gordon Routledge,Ontario Forest Research Institute Pdf

Ontario's "Forest management guide for natural disturbance pattern emulation" provides direction for emulating natural fire disturbances in forest management planning. This report examines the North American scientific literature on natural fire disturbances in relation to the directions in this guide for: landscape harvest size patterns; landscape harvest patch separation; residual stands; and residual trees & downed woody debris. Gaps in the published knowledge are identified. An annotated bibliography of the literature reviewed for the report is included.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Brian R. Sturtevant,Lisa J. Buse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319198095

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Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances by Ajith H. Perera,Brian R. Sturtevant,Lisa J. Buse Pdf

Forest landscape disturbances are a global phenomenon. Simulation models are an important tool in understanding these broad scale processes and exploring their effects on forest ecosystems. This book contains a collection of insights from a group of ecologists who address a variety of processes: physical disturbances such as drought, wind, and fire; biological disturbances such as defoliating insects and bark beetles; anthropogenic influences; interactions among disturbances; effects of climate change on disturbances; and the recovery of forest landscapes from disturbances—all from a simulation modeling perspective. These discussions and examples offer a broad synopsis of the state of this rapidly evolving subject.

Author : Robert Paehlke
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0262661888

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Democracy's Dilemma by Robert Paehlke Pdf

A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.

Author : João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493909537

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Forest Landscapes and Global Change by João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto Pdf

Climate change, urban sprawl, abandonment of agriculture, intensification of forestry and agriculture, changes in energy generation and use, expansion of infrastructure networks, habitat destruction and degradation, and other drivers of change occur at increasing rates. They affect patterns and processes in forest landscapes, and modify ecosystem services derived from those ecosystems. Consequently, rapidly changing landscapes present many new challenges to scientists and managers. While it is not uncommon to encounter the terms “global change” and “landscape” together in the ecological literature, a global analyses of drivers of change in forest landscapes, and their ecological consequences have not been addressed adequately. That is the goal of this volume: an exploration of the state of knowledge of global changes in forested landscapes with emphasis on causes and effects, and challenges faced by researchers and land managers. Initial chapters identify and describe major agents of landscape change: climate, fire, and human activities. The next series of chapters address implications of changes on ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and carbon flux. A chapter that describes methodologies of detecting and monitoring landscape changes is presented followed by chapter that highlights the many challenges forest landscape managers face amidst of global change. Finally, we present a summary and a synthesis of the main points presented in the book. Each chapter will contain the individual research experiences of chapter authors, augmented by review and synthesis of global scientific literature on relevant topics, as well as critical input from multiple peer reviewers.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Thomas Crow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387342435

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Forest Landscape Ecology by Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Thomas Crow Pdf

Landscape ecology has generated a wealth of knowledge that could enhance forest policy, but little of this knowledge has found its way into practice. This the first book to introduce landscape ecologists to the discipline of knowledge transfer. The book considers knowledge transfer in general, critically examines aspects that are unique to forest landscape ecology, and reviews case studies of successful applications for policy developers and forest managers in North America.

Author : Ajith Perera,Lisa Buse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118870587

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Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests by Ajith Perera,Lisa Buse Pdf

This book will draw attention to the residuals in pan-borealforest fires and synthesize the state of knowledge. It willdo so by: (a) Examining the concept of fire residuals fromdifferent perspectives, (b) Reviewing the growing body ofscientific literature on the topic, (c) Conceptualizing theprocess of residual formation in relation to scale of firedisturbance, (d) Discussing the roles of fire residuals inecological processes, (e) Describing approaches and methods ofstudying fire residuals, (f) Compiling and summarizing what isknown about fire residual vegetation with respect to their extent,spatial patterns, and temporal changes, (g) Discussing howthe knowledge of fire residuals is applied in forest management,including social perspective, and (h) Synthesizing the state ofknowledge, identifying its uncertainties and gaps, and proposingresearch hypotheses. The authors use pan-borealscientific literature on boreal fire residuals as well as firebehaviour, fire ecology, habitat ecology, and geochemicalprocesses. For readers this book will be a reference forknowledge to date and a meta-analysis of research trends during thepast few decades. In addition, the authors judiciouslyinclude views constructed from their observations and researchexperience, from boreal Canada, when they synthesize andconceptualize the knowledge. They also incorporateinformation extracted from their discussions and interactions withNorth American and European ecologists, forest managers, andconservationists to provide insight to different views andperspectives on the fire residuals of the boreal forest system. This book will inform researchers and students who studyboreal forest ecology, as well as policymakers and forest managerswho apply forest ecological knowledge in forest management. This book provides a review and coalescence of the currentknowledge of boreal forest fire residuals, which at present issporadic and has not been unified or synthesized. Moreover,these are presently viewed myopically and parochially, rather thanholistically. The intent of the synthesis is to identifyknowledge uncertainties and gaps and propose topics for futureresearch. Most importantly, it brings together fire behaviour,ecological scale, vegetation ecology, and conservation biology toconceptualize forest fire residuals. Although focused onboreal forests, the contents and principles presented are also bepertinent to other large-scale fire driven forest systems, such asdry montane forests in North America and Australian eucalyptforests. This book will add to the current knowledge base byproviding a source of significant literature to-date, an in-depthexamination of baseline concepts of forest fire residuals, as wellas questions and research ideas to address the identified gaps. Thetiming is ideal because the knowledge base is beginning to expandand the interest in the topic is increasing: such a synthesis wouldprovide an important foundation for future advances in this veryrelevant topical area. The book is a compact, yet comprehensive,dissertation of remnant vegetation in boreal forest fires withrespect to their formation, role in ecological processes, appliedimportance, and a synthesis of state-of-the-knowledge and futureresearch directions. The scope is boreal forests worldwide,including North America, Europe, and Asia. Brief TOC: Why theinterest in boreal fire residuals; what are fire residuals; how arefire residuals formed; what are the ecological roles of the fireresiduals; what is the role of residuals in forest managementapplications; synthesis, knowledge, uncertainties and researchneeds.

Author : Lisa Jean Buse,Ontario Forest Research Institute
Publisher : Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D023630944

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Ontario Forest Research Institute Publications 2001-2005 by Lisa Jean Buse,Ontario Forest Research Institute Pdf

"This bibliography compiles all publications written, co-authored, or commissioned by OFRI staff between 2001 and 2005. During this period over 200 publications were produced including 3 books, 87 journal articles, 26 reports, 11 technical notes, 5 newsletters, 47 papers/summaries in conference/workshop proceedings. Topics covered are diverse: understanding natural disturbance regimes and landscape dynamics, carbon budgets and effects of climate change on forests, results of 1998 ice storm research, silviculture studies covering everything from site preparation, tree improvement, stock production, planting, and vegetation management, to stand growth and yield, thinning, disease management and harvesting for conifer, mixedwood, and hardwood forests in the boreal and Great Lakes region of Ontario. Author and subject indexes are provided."--Document.

Author : Edward A. Johnson,Kiyoko Miyanishi
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780128188149

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Plant Disturbance Ecology by Edward A. Johnson,Kiyoko Miyanishi Pdf

Disturbance ecology continues to be an active area of research, having undergone advances in many areas in recent years. One emerging direction is the increased coupling of physical and ecological processes, in which disturbances are increasingly traced back to mechanisms that cause the disturbances themselves, such as earth surface processes, mesoscale, and larger meteorological processes, and the ecological effects of interest are increasingly physiological. Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition encourages movement away from the informal, conceptual approach traditionally used in defining natural disturbances and clearly presents how scientists can use a multitude of approaches in plant disturbance ecology. This edition includes nine revised chapters from the first edition, as well new, more comprehensive chapters on fire disturbance and beaver disturbance. Edited by leading experts in the field, Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition is an essential resource for scientists interested in understanding plant disturbance and ecological processes. Advances understanding of natural disturbances by combining geophysical and ecological processes Provides a framework for collaboration between geophysical scientists and ecologists studying natural disturbances Includes fully updated research with 5 new chapters and revision of 11 chapters from the first edition

Author : C. DeLong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ecological disturbances
ISBN : MINN:31951D03419049U

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Land Units and Benchmarks for Developing Natural-disturbance Based Forest Management Guidance for Northeastern British Columbia by C. DeLong Pdf

"There has been a steady increase in the use of knowledge of natural disturbance dynamics as a basis for forest management policy directed towards maintaining biological diversity. While the merits of this approach are currently being debated, especially in light of climate change, knowledge of natural disturbance patterns provides useful baseline information to assist with landscape level planning and stand level forest practices. This document outlines an ecological land delineation process that focuses on differences in disturbance rate and pattern and successional dynamics for northeast British Columbia. It provides some general principles regarding natural disturbance-based management and, for each delineated unit, detailed information on location, climate, vegetation, natural disturbance dynamics, forest management effects on natural pattern, and recommended forest practices based on the natural disturbance-based management paradigm."--Document.

Author : Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly S. Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319215273

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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation by Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly S. Collins Pdf

This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological integrity’ and within the ‘natural range of variation’ of natural disturbances and vegetation structure. Synthesizing information on HRV of natural disturbance types, and their impacts on forest structure, has been identified as a top need.

Author : Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen,Giovanni Sanesi,Thomas R. Crow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085048

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Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes by Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen,Giovanni Sanesi,Thomas R. Crow Pdf

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration – the pattern – of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients. Understanding these issues is key to the successful management of complex, multifunctional forest landscapes, and landscape ecology, based on a foundation of island bio-geography and meta-population dynamic theories, provides the rationale to deal with this pattern-to-process interaction at different spatial and temporal scales. This carefully edited volume represents a stimulating addition to the international literature on landscape ecology and resource management. It provides key insights into some of the applicable landscape ecological theories that underlie forest management, with a specific focus on how forest management can benefit from landscape ecology, and how landscape ecology can be advanced by tackling challenging problems in forest (landscape) management. It also presents a series of case studies from Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and Australia exploring the issues of disturbance, diversity, management, and scale, and with a specific focus on how human intervention affects forest landscapes and, in turn, how landscapes influence humans and their culture. An important reference for advanced students and researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, natural resource management and ecology across multiple scales, the book will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in reserve design, ecological restoration, forest management, landscape planning and landscape architecture.