The Ecology And Silviculture Of Mixed Species Forests

Author : M.J. Kelty,Bruce C. Larson,Chadwick D. Oliver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401580526

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The Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed-Species Forests by M.J. Kelty,Bruce C. Larson,Chadwick D. Oliver Pdf

Much of the world's forested land is dominated by mixed-species stands. Understanding the complex structure and dynamics of these mixtures is a necessary step in the process of formulating appropriate silvicultural systems for their management. David M. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Silviculture at Yale University, has devoted much of his career to the study of the structure, development, and silvicultural treatment of these kinds of stands. This volume is presented by Professor Smith's collegues to honor the contributions he has made to the field. It contains both reviews of past work and results of current studies of mixed stands: topics range from analysis of forest dynamics in unmanaged stands to studies of silvicultural systems applied to mixtures, with examples drawn from boreal, temperate, and tropical regions. Much of the work stresses the importance of understanding the characteristic growth patterns of individual species within mixed stands, and how species interactions shape developmental patterns.

Author : Andrés Bravo-Oviedo,Hans Pretzsch,Miren del Río
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319919539

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Dynamics, Silviculture and Management of Mixed Forests by Andrés Bravo-Oviedo,Hans Pretzsch,Miren del Río Pdf

The capacity of mixed forests to mitigate climate change effects by increasing resilience and lowering risks is pinpointed as an opportunity to highlight the role of tree species rich forests as part of complex socio-ecological systems. This book updates and presents the state-of-the-art of mixed forest performance in terms of regeneration, growth, yield and delivery of ecosystem services. Examples from more than 20 countries in Europe, North Africa and South America provide insights on the interplay between structure and functionining, stability, silviculture and optimization of management of this type of forests. The book also analyses the role of natural mixed forests and mixed plantations in the delivery of ecosystem services and the best modelling strategy to study mixed forest dynamics. The book is intended to serve as a reference tool for students, researchers and professionals concerned about the management of mixed forests in a context of social and environmental change.

Author : Hans Pretzsch,David I. Forrester,Jürgen Bauhus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662545539

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Mixed-Species Forests by Hans Pretzsch,David I. Forrester,Jürgen Bauhus Pdf

This textbook offers a detailed overview of the current state of knowledge concerning the ecology and management of compositionally and structurally diverse forests. It provides answers to central questions such as: What are the scientific concepts used to assess the growth, dynamics and functioning of mixed-species forests, how generalizable are they, and what kind of experiments are necessary to develop them further? How do mixed-species stands compare with monocultures in relation to productivity, wood quality, and ecological stability in the face of stress and disturbances? How are the effects of species mixtures on ecosystem functioning influenced by the particular species composition, site conditions, and stand structure? How does any over- or underyielding at the forest-stand level emerge from the tree and organ level, and what are the main mechanisms behind mixing effects? How can our current scientific understanding of mixed-species forests be integrated into silvicultural concepts as well as practical forest management and planning? Do the ecological characteristics of mixed-species stands also translate into economic differences between mixtures and monocultures? In addition, the book addresses experimental designs and analytical approaches to study mixed-species forests and provides extensive empirical information, general concepts, models, and management approaches for mixed-species forests. As such, it offers a valuable resource for students, scientists and educators, as well as professional forest planners, managers, and consultants.

Author : Mark S. Ashton,Matthew J. Kelty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119270959

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The Practice of Silviculture by Mark S. Ashton,Matthew J. Kelty Pdf

The most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on silviculture that covers the range of topics and issues facing today’s foresters and resource professionals The tenth edition of the classic work, The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and the results of research on the many issues that are relevant to forests and forestry. The text covers such timely topics as biofuels and intensive timber production, ecosystem and landscape scale management of public lands, ecosystem services, surface drinking water supplies, urban and community greenspace, forest carbon, fire and climate, and much more. In recent years, silvicultural systems have become more sophisticated and complex in application, particularly with a focus on multi-aged silviculture. There have been paradigm shifts toward managing for more complex structures and age-classes for integrated and complementary values including wildlife, water and open space recreation. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition covers a wide range of topics and challenges relevant to the forester or resource professional today. This full-color text offers the most expansive book on silviculture and: Includes a revised and expanded text with clear language and explanations Covers the many cutting-edge resource issues that are relevant to forests and forestry Contains boxes within each chapter to provide greater detail on particular silvicultural treatments and examples of their use Features a completely updated bibliography plus new photographs, tables and figures The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, Tenth Edition is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in forestry and natural resource management.

Author : Brian J. Palik,Anthony W. D'Amato
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781119890935

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Ecological Silvicultural Systems by Brian J. Palik,Anthony W. D'Amato Pdf

ECOLOGICAL SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS Unleash the natural power and adaptability of forests with this cutting-edge guide For generations, silvicultural systems have focused largely on models whose primary objective is the production of timber, leading to drastically simplified forests with reduced ecological richness, diversity, and complexity. Ecological silviculture, by contrast, focuses on producing and maintaining forests with “all their parts”—, that is, with the diversity and flexibility to respond and adapt to global changes. Ecological silviculture seeks to emulate natural development models and sustain healthy forests serving multiple values and goals. Ecological Silvicultural Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to these approaches and their benefits tailored to diverse types of forests, designed for forest management professionals. It provides a series of exemplary models for ecological silviculture and surveys the resulting forest ecosystems. The result is a text that meets the needs of professionals in forestry and natural resource management with an eye towards sustaining healthy forest ecosystems, adapting them to climate change, protecting them from invasive species, and responding to changing market forces. Ecological Silvicultural Systems readers will also find: Detailed treatment of forest ecosystems in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia A broad field of contributors with decades of combined expertise on multiple continents Discussion of pine woodlands; temperate hardwood forests, boreal forests, temperate rainforests, and more Ecological Silvicultural Systems is a useful reference for professional foresters, wildlife habitat managers, restoration ecologists, and undergraduate and graduate students in any of these fields.

Author : Paul S Johnson,Stephen R Shifley,Robert Rogers,Daniel C Dey,John M Kabrick
Publisher : CABI
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780647081

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The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks, 3rd Edition by Paul S Johnson,Stephen R Shifley,Robert Rogers,Daniel C Dey,John M Kabrick Pdf

The third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks is an updated and expanded edition that explores oak forests as responsive ecosystems. New chapters emphasize the importance of fire in sustaining and managing oak forests, the effects of a changing climate, and advanced artificial regeneration techniques. This new edition expands on silvicultural methods for restoring and sustaining oak woodlands and savannahs, and on management of ecosystem services, including wildlife habitat. It also incorporates new material on evaluating landscape-scale, and cumulative effects of management action compared with inaction. Nine of the fifteen chapters cover updated information on the geographic distribution of US oaks, oak regeneration dynamics, site productivity, stocking and stand development, even- and uneven-aged silvicultural methods, and growth and yield. This edition includes a new section with colour illustrations for improved visualization of complex relationships. This book is intended for forest and wildlife managers, ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists, and students of those fields.

Author : R. G. Florence
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0643090649

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Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests by R. G. Florence Pdf

Examines the ecology and silviculture of eucalypts in forests and plantations in Australia and overseas.

Author : John D. Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 019854670X

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Silvicultural Systems by John D. Matthews Pdf

This book describes the theoretical basis and practical application of 20 diverse silvicultural systems for the benefit of ecologists, land-use managers and other professionals. These systems offer the key to regenerating, tending, and harvesting forests in an era of rapid deforestation and increasing demand for wood as fuel and building material. The approaches described here are being used successfully in widely different parts of the world, from Europe to the tropical rain forests, where reduced forest areas must be carefully managed in order to produce the highest possible sustained yield of timber products compatible with environmental protection and preservation. The systematic presentation and discussion of advantages and disadvantages of each program enables readers to select and apply the program most suitable for their needs.

Author : British Columbia. Silviculture Interpretations Working Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 0771891946

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British Columbia's Forests by British Columbia. Silviculture Interpretations Working Group Pdf

Author : Thomas James McEvoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D031134451

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Introduction to Forest Ecology and Silviculture by Thomas James McEvoy Pdf

Author : Brian J. Palik,Anthony W. D'Amato,Jerry F. Franklin,K. Norman Johnson
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781478645238

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Ecological Silviculture by Brian J. Palik,Anthony W. D'Amato,Jerry F. Franklin,K. Norman Johnson Pdf

Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models—models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological legacies, and allow time to take its course in shaping stands. These methods, dubbed “ecological forestry,” have been successfully implemented by foresters for decades managing a wide variety of forestlands. Ecological silvicultural strategies protect threatened and rare species, sustain biological diversity, and provide habitat for game and non-game species, all while providing timber in profitable ways.

Author : P A Wojtkowski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429530234

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Undoing the Damage by P A Wojtkowski Pdf

As a natural science, silviculture has a large say in how humans interact with the terrestrial world. Although the perspective taken here that the production of wood is narrow, the amount of land area consumed is extensive; the indirect consequences of wood production on natural processes are larger still. Through the amount of land engaged, the flora and fauna affected and the environmental consequences, good or bad; silviculture is a frequent constituent in applied ecology, environmental science, conservation ecology and other broad land-use disciplines. Silvicultural expertize is essential when trees and wood are an economic output; often best promoted when silviculture is allied with hydrology, ecology, soil science, wildlife management, etc. This book touches upon the following important areas of the subject in detail.

Author : P. G. Comeau,Keith Douglas Thomas,British Columbia. Ministry of Forests. Research Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951P004536422

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Silviculture of Temperate and Boreal Broadleaf-conifer Mixtures by P. G. Comeau,Keith Douglas Thomas,British Columbia. Ministry of Forests. Research Branch Pdf

This volume presents papers given at a workshop held to review current knowledge of the silviculture of temperate and boreal broadleaf-conifer mixtures and the consequences of growing mixed stands. Topics of the papers include the importance of mixedwood stands, managing birch-dominated mixed stands, competition dynamics, silvicultural systems, stand dynamics, vegetation management, red alder-conifer stands, mixedwood management research, white spruce and aspen stands, vertical stratification in mixed-species stands, habitat management for game and parasite control, simulation of long-term impacts of alder/fir mixtures, understory protection, fertilisation, control of spruce weevils, and litter decomposition.

Author : K. Klinka,David Brisco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : MINN:31951D02938066W

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Silvics and Silviculture of Coastal Western Redcedar by K. Klinka,David Brisco Pdf

The intent of this report is to present the most current and available information concerning establishment and growth of redcedar in the coastal region of British Columbia. The first three sections introduce the approach to the report and summarize well-known information about the redcedar resource and the uses of redcedar products. The silvics section describes morphological and reproduction characteristics, tolerance, damaging agents, growth development patterns, and genetics and summarizes several studies investigating redcedar stem form and root characteristics. The ecology section describes climatic amplitude of redcedar, its occurrence within biogeoclimatic units, edaphic amplitude, and associated tree species. The silviculture section includes management- related topics such as growth and yield, regeneration strategies, and intensive silviculture options.--Document.

Author : David M. Smith
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015038160993

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The Practice of Silviculture by David M. Smith Pdf

Provides a comprehensive look at a wide range of silvicultural practices, and their impact on cost, forest productivity and environmental values.