Sicamous Creek Silvicultural Systems Project

Author : David Leslie Spittlehouse,Rita Dorit Winkler,Ralph Sidney Adams,British Columbia. Forest Science Program
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bioclimatology
ISBN : MINN:31951D02181064P

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Forest, Edge and Opening Microclimate at Sicamous Creek by David Leslie Spittlehouse,Rita Dorit Winkler,Ralph Sidney Adams,British Columbia. Forest Science Program Pdf

The study described in this report is part of a larger project intended to address concerns about the effects of clear-cut harvesting on high-elevation forests in southern interior British Columbia. The study investigated microclimatic conditions in mature forest and in clear-cuts of 0.1 to 10 hectares. Parameters measured include solar radiation, ultraviolet-B radiation, energy balance (fluxes of net radiation, soil heat, sensible heat, & water vapour), wind speed, precipitation & snow melt, and air & soil temperature. Results compare measurements made in forests with those made in the openings. Implications of the findings for plants & for forest hydrology are discussed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01632868J

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Sicamous Creek Silvicultural Systems Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brenda Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01639411T

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Adaptive Management of Forests in British Columbia by Brenda Taylor Pdf

Provides an overview of adaptive management concepts and strategies of potential interest to the experienced woodland manager.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097800522

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General Technical Report PNW-GTR by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D029770201

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Balancing Ecosystem Values by Anonim Pdf

Balancing Ecosystem Values: Innovative Experiments for Sustainable Forestry is a compendium of more than 40 contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The theme encompasses experiments implemented at an operational scale to test ecological, social, or economic responses to silvicultural treatments designed to balance the complex set of objectives currently targeted in sustainable forest management. Several invited and plenary papers emphasize the variety of outcomes demanded by the public, as well as the essential role that these long-term studies will play in allowing natural resource managers to make better-informed, science-based decisions. A broad spectrum of silvicultural treatments and systems are covered, as are simulation runs with different types of models and discussion about design challenges for scaling up from stands to landscapes. Diverse forest ecosystems, stand structures and plant, animal, and fungal species are also considered. The conference included 2 days in the field where participants saw several types of the comprehensive field experiments firsthand. The conference concluded with a critique from state, private, and public land managers.

Author : David B. Lindenmayer,Jerry F. Franklin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597268530

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Conserving Forest Biodiversity by David B. Lindenmayer,Jerry F. Franklin Pdf

While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the "matrix"—are equally important to preserving global biodiversity and maintaining forest health. In Conserving Forest Biodiversity, leading forest scientists David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas. They lay the foundations for such a strategy, bringing together the latest scientific information on landscape ecology, forestry, conservation biology, and related disciplines as they examine: the importance of the matrix in key areas of ecology such as metapopulation dynamics, habitat fragmentation, and landscape connectivity general principles for matrix management using natural disturbance regimes to guide human disturbance landscape-level and stand-level elements of matrix management the role of adaptive management and monitoring social dimensions and tensions in implementing matrix-based forest management In addition, they present five case studies that illustrate aspects and elements of applied matrix management in forests. The case studies cover a wide variety of conservation planning and management issues from North America, South America, and Australia, ranging from relatively intact forest ecosystems to an intensively managed plantation. Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of more effective approaches to maintaining forest biodiversity. It examines the key issues and gives practical guidelines for sustained forest management, highlighting the critical role of the matrix for scientists, managers, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders involved in efforts to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forest landscapes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Coarse woody debris
ISBN : MINN:31951D02974717D

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Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Stevenson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774818513

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British Columbia's Inland Rainforest by Susan Stevenson Pdf

The vast temperate rainforests of coastal British Columbia are world renowned, but much less is known about the other rainforest located 500 kilometres inland along the western slopes of the interior mountains. The unique integration of continentality and humidity in this region favours the development of lush rainforest communities that incorporate both coastal and boreal elements. In British Columbia's Inland Rainforest, scientists bring together, for the first time, a broad spectrum of information about this distinctive ecosystem. They also consider the ecological consequences of human activities in the rainforest and present strategies for its management and conservation.

Author : Pier Luigi Nimis,Christoph Scheidegger,Patricia A. Wolseley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401004237

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Monitoring with Lichens - Monitoring Lichens by Pier Luigi Nimis,Christoph Scheidegger,Patricia A. Wolseley Pdf

A comprehensive, up-to-date review of lichens as biomonitors of air pollution (bioindication, metal and radionuclide accumulation, biomarkers), and as monitors of environmental change (including global climate change and biodiversity loss) in a wide array of terrestrial habitats. Several methods for using lichens as biomonitors are described in a special section of the book.

Author : James Arthur Rochelle,Leslie A. Lehmann,Joe Wisniewski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004113886

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Forest Fragmentation by James Arthur Rochelle,Leslie A. Lehmann,Joe Wisniewski Pdf

The book contains 15 chapters and provides an overview and synthesis of forest fragmentation and its influences on key ecological processes and vertebrate productivity. Land use practices and their effects on vertebrate populations and productivity are discussed and examples of several planning approaches to address landscape-level management effects are described.

Author : Klaus J. Puettmann,K. David Coates,Christian C. Messier
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610911238

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A Critique of Silviculture by Klaus J. Puettmann,K. David Coates,Christian C. Messier Pdf

The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing needed wood products. A Critique of Silviculture offers a penetrating look at the current state of the field and provides suggestions for its future development. The book includes an overview of the historical developments of silvicultural techniques and describes how these developments are best understood in their contemporary philosophical, social, and ecological contexts. It also explains how the traditional strengths of silviculture are becoming limitations as society demands a varied set of benefits from forests and as we learn more about the importance of diversity on ecosystem functions and processes. The authors go on to explain how other fields, specifically ecology and complexity science, have developed in attempts to understand the diversity of nature and the variability and heterogeneity of ecosystems. The authors suggest that ideas and approaches from these fields could offer a road map to a new philosophical and practical approach that endorses managing forests as complex adaptive systems. A Critique of Silviculture bridges a gap between silviculture and ecology that has long hindered the adoption of new ideas. It breaks the mold of disciplinary thinking by directly linking new ideas and findings in ecology and complexity science to the field of silviculture. This is a critically important book that is essential reading for anyone involved with forest ecology, forestry, silviculture, or the management of forested ecosystems.

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136565397

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Forests in Landscapes by Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer Pdf

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Forestry extension
ISBN : UCBK:C117564224

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Extension Note by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UGA:32108036219833

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136565403

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Forests in Landscapes by Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer Pdf

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR