Forest Ecosystems In The Alaskan Taiga

Author : K. van Cleve,F.S.III. Chapin,P.W. Flanagan,L.A. Viereck,C.T. Dyrness
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461249023

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Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga by K. van Cleve,F.S.III. Chapin,P.W. Flanagan,L.A. Viereck,C.T. Dyrness Pdf

The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University. The objective of the volume is to present a synthetic overview of structure and function of taiga forest ecosystems in interior Alaska. The data base for this work has appeared in earlier published articles including the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research Volume 13:5 (1983). Stimulus for this book was a conference held in Fairbanks from June 10-14, 1983. The papers presented at the conference were fore runners of the chapters in this book. We invited 19 scientists from North America and England to critique our research and synthesis efforts. Six of these people were asked to write introductory chapters for each section of the book. Formal presentation sessions, combined with field trips to research sites, introduced the invitees to the primary and secondary successional ecosystems with which we were dealing. A major wildfire, only 24 km from the University campus, was contained the week prior to the conference and one field trip provided graphic evidence of fire impact in subarctic forests. The conference conveners regretted that it was not possible to host a similar meeting during synthesis efforts in mid-January.

Author : K Van Cleve,F S III Chapin,P W Flanagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461249031

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Author : K. van Cleve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0887962513

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Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga by K. van Cleve Pdf

Author : F. Stuart Chapin,Mark W. Oswood,Keith van Cleve,Leslie A. Viereck,David L. Verbyla
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 019534832X

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Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest by F. Stuart Chapin,Mark W. Oswood,Keith van Cleve,Leslie A. Viereck,David L. Verbyla Pdf

The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and describes their unique features in the context of circumpolar and global patterns. It tells how fire and climate contributed to the biome's current dynamics. As climate warms and permafrost (permanently frozen ground) thaws, the boreal forest may be on the cusp of a major change in state. The editors have gathered a remarkable set of contributors to discuss this swift environmental and biotic transformation. Their chapters cover the properties of the forest, the changes it is undergoing, and the challenges these alterations present to boreal forest managers. In the first section, the reader can absorb the geographic and historical context for understanding the boreal forest. The book then delves into the dynamics of plant and animal communities inhabiting this forest, and the biogeochemical processes that link these organisms. In the last section the authors explore landscape phenomena that operate at larger temporal and spatial scales and integrates the processes described in earlier sections. Much of the research on which this book is based results from the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Here is a synthesis of the substantial literature on Alaska's boreal forest that should be accessible to professional ecologists, students, and the interested public.

Author : Austin Edward Helmers,Charles T. Cushwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951D02964432Z

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Research Opportunities and Needs in the Taiga of Alaska by Austin Edward Helmers,Charles T. Cushwa Pdf

An appraisal of taiga (the northern forests of interior Alaska) environment research opportunities and needs was made based upon accomplishments since Alaskan statehood, current involvement of citizens in resource issues, information needs incident to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and needs of new resource managing agencies and changing ownerships brought about by statehood and the settlement of aboriginal land claims. Based upon this appraisal, it is proposed that the research needs can best be met through a ultidisciplinary interagency program. The program suggests closer coordination among several departments of the University of Alaska and a number of State and Federal agencies currently involved in applicable research. The urgency of research implementation is related to rapid change and diminishing opportunity to insure orderly development of Alaska's resources.

Author : Eric S. Kasischke,Brian J. Stocks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387216294

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Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest by Eric S. Kasischke,Brian J. Stocks Pdf

A discussion of the direct and indirect mechanisms by which fire and climate interact to influence carbon cycling in North American boreal forests. The first section summarizes the information needed to understand and manage fires' effects on the ecology of boreal forests and its influence on global climate change issues. Following chapters discuss in detail the role of fire in the ecology of boreal forests, present data sets on fire and the distribution of carbon, and treat the use of satellite imagery in monitoring these regions as well as approaches to modeling the relevant processes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D02860149L

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Alaska's Forests & Wildlife by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. Stuart Chapin,Mark W. Oswood,Keith van Cleve,Leslie A. Viereck,David L. Verbyla
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190288549

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Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest by F. Stuart Chapin,Mark W. Oswood,Keith van Cleve,Leslie A. Viereck,David L. Verbyla Pdf

The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and describes their unique features in the context of circumpolar and global patterns. It tells how fire and climate contributed to the biome's current dynamics. As climate warms and permafrost (permanently frozen ground) thaws, the boreal forest may be on the cusp of a major change in state. The editors have gathered a remarkable set of contributors to discuss this swift environmental and biotic transformation. Their chapters cover the properties of the forest, the changes it is undergoing, and the challenges these alterations present to boreal forest managers. In the first section, the reader can absorb the geographic and historical context for understanding the boreal forest. The book then delves into the dynamics of plant and animal communities inhabiting this forest, and the biogeochemical processes that link these organisms. In the last section the authors explore landscape phenomena that operate at larger temporal and spatial scales and integrates the processes described in earlier sections. Much of the research on which this book is based results from the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Here is a synthesis of the substantial literature on Alaska's boreal forest that should be accessible to professional ecologists, students, and the interested public.

Author : J.E. Oliver,Rhodes W. Fairbridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015011861146

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The Encyclopedia of Climatology by J.E. Oliver,Rhodes W. Fairbridge Pdf

Today's greater public awareness of how climate affects our quality of life and environment has created an increasing demand for climatological information. Now this information is available in one convenient, accessible source, The Encyclopedia of Climatology. This comprehensive volume covers all the main subfields of climatology, supplies data on climates in major continental areas and explains what is known about the causes of climatic processes and changes. Contents include articles on bioclimatology, El Niño, climatic models, world regional climates, civilization and climate, climatic variations and the greenhouse effect.

Author : Leslie A. Viereck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Plant communities
ISBN : MINN:31951D029749442

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The Alaska Vegetation Classification by Leslie A. Viereck Pdf

Author : David Greenland,Douglas G. Goodin,Raymond C. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190287832

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Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites by David Greenland,Douglas G. Goodin,Raymond C. Smith Pdf

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015022555505

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The Forest Ecosystem of Southeast Alaska by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. S. Harris,Wilbur A. Farr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : UIUC:30112102049589

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The Forest Ecosystem of Southeast Alaska by A. S. Harris,Wilbur A. Farr Pdf

Large-scale use of the timber resource of southeast Alaska began in 1953 after long efforts to establish a timber industry. Development and present status of the industry and present management of the timber resource are summarized, stressing the biological basis for timber management activities in southeast Alaska today. Ecological and silvicultural considerations related to timber harvest, reforestation, and stand development are discussed. Published and unpublished information are brought together. Current management practices are discussed as a basis for a better understanding of how this information can be helpful in managing the timber resource and to point out where research is needed.

Author : James A. Larsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461387916

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The Northern Forest Border in Canada and Alaska by James A. Larsen Pdf

It is enough to work on the assumption that all of the details matter in the end, in some unknown but vital way. Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia Advances in knowledge of northern ecology have been so rapid that to undertake a synthesis of all the literature now available would be a major enterprise, perhaps even a life's work, and so it must be considered permissible to fill in a few gaps, follow one's own inclinations, leaving comprehensive syntheses to those willing to undertake them. This is the rubric under which I have written, reporting some of the more interesting data I and others have obtained over the years, often diverging into discussions of plants, soils, climate, and faunal relationships which have perhaps not previously been dealt with extensively, or at least in quite the same way. This is purely intentional, since I find it difficult to summon up the needed enthusiasm, at this late hour, to write on topics which unfortunately for me have little attraction. I have thus written for the pleasure derived from depicting, perhaps at times as something of an impressionist, a fascinating biotic region, a captivating land, a collection of interesting ecological problems, environmental relationships to be discerned in part, perhaps understood to some small degree, perhaps one day to be modeled mathematically. As Leo Szilard once wrote: ': . . to be able to say even this much might be of some value" (Szilard, 1960).

Author : Malcolm L. Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521637686

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Maintaining Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems by Malcolm L. Hunter Pdf

Discusses the ways in which we can continue to benefit from forests, while conserving their biodiversity.