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Forest health : an integrated perspective
Title
Forest health : an integrated perspective / edited by John D. Castello [and] Stephen A. Teale.
ISBN
9780521766692 (hardback)
0521766699 (hardback)
9780521747417 (pbk.)
0521747414 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xi, 392 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Summary
"Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural, managed, even-aged, un-even aged and urban forests, as well as plantations. Readers of the text can use real datasets to assess the sustainability of four forests around the world. Datasets for the case studies are at www.cambridge.org/9780521766692, and the text provides stepwise instructions for performing the calculations in Microsoft Excel. Readers can follow along as the editors perform the same calculations and interpret the results. Elevating forest health from a fuzzy concept to an ecologically sound paradigm, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals interested in forest health, protection, entomology, pathology and ecology"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 22, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Forest Health and Mortality:
1. The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest health / S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
2. Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest / L. Zhang, B. D. Rubin and P. D. Manion
3. How do we do it, and what does it mean?: forest health case studies / J. D. Castello, S. A. Teale and J. A. Cale
Part II. Forest Health and its Ecological Components:
4. Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic factors to a healthy forest / S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
5. Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on forest structure and function / D. Parry and S. A. Teale
6. Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic factors, and mycorrhizae / R. D. Briggs and T. R. Horton
7. Earth, wind, and fire: abiotic factors and the impacts of global environmental change on forest health / J. E. Lundquist, ... [et al.]
Part III. Forest Health and the Human Dimension:
8. Silviculture, forest management, and forest health: an axe does not a forester make / C. A. Nowak, R. H. Germain and A. P. Drew
9. Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest: can we have it all? / S. P. Campbell, D. A. Patrick and J. P. Gibbs
10. Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health monitoring / M. Fierke, D. Nowak and R. Hofstetter
11. What did we learn, and where does it leave us?: concluding thoughts / J. D. Castello and S. A. Teale.
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