Chelsea House, 2006 - 272 p. Perhaps no land based regions of the world offer a greater panoply of life than do the Earth's tropical forests. Sadly, despite the treasure trove of life that exists in the rain forests of the world, these gardens of life are diminishing on a daily basis. As Michael Allaby notes in this illustrated science title, the world's tropical forests are...
Springer, 2012. — 424 p. — ISBN: 9400722311. The goal of this volume is to provide guidance for advanced students, land managers and policymakers seeking to understand the complex science and policy of forest carbon as it relates to tangible problems of forest management and the more abstract problems of addressing drivers of deforestation and negotiating policy frameworks for...
New York: Springer, 2014. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4939-0952-0. 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...
InTeO, 2012. — 477 p. — ISBN: 9535102021, 9789535102021. In this book, the readers can find the latest. research related to forest ecosystems but with a different twist. The research described here is not just on trees and is focused on the other components, structures and functions that are usually overshadowed by the focus on trees, but are equally important to maintain the...
Springer, 2017. — 445 p. — (Managing Forest Ecosystems 34). — ISBN: 9783319282480, 9783319282503 Climate change shaped the political agenda during the last decade with three issues as hot topics: commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, impact and mitigation of climate change. Given the significant role that forests play in the climate system – as sources, sinks, and...
Springer, 2017. — 1093 p. — ISBN: 9783319430423, 3319430424, 9783319430409. This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with...
Nova Science Publishers, 2017. — 184 p. — (Wildlife protection, destruction, and extinction). — ISBN: 9781634857949. This current book reviews and analyzes forest ecosystems. Chapter One begins with a discussion of radioactivity in forest ecosystems. Chapter Two discusses how litter chemistry has significant effects on soil biogeochemistry and looks into the relationships...
Springer, 2017. — 530 p. — (Ecological Studies 229). — ISBN: 978-3-319-49387-9, 978-3-319-49389-3 This book focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest. The transition from a forest affected by acid rain into a heterogeneous forest occurred as a result of wind throw, bark beetles and climate change. Scientific results...
Springer, 2012. — 540 p. 233 illus. — ISBN: 940075602X, 9789400756021. This important contribution is the result of decades of theoretical thinking and high-value data collection by the University of Helsinki examining forest ecosystems in great detail. The ecology is dominated by a qualitative approach, e.g. species and vegetation zones, but in contrast quantitative thinking...
Springer, 2006 — 536 p. — (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, Vol. 2) — ISBN: 978-1-4020-5207-1, 978-1-4020-5208-8 Natural forests with thousands of years of ecological continuity are unrivalled as the treasure store of terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. And while there is currently no fully comprehensive inventory of the biota associated with any given forest, it is...
CRC Press, 2017. — 450 p. — ISBN: 149874818X, 9781498748186. Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests is a timely synthesis of the current understanding of the natural dynamics and processes in longleaf pine ecosystems. This book beautifully illustrates how incorporation of basic ecosystem knowledge and an understanding of socioeconomic realities shed new...
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2017. — 331 p. — ISBN: 9781610918749, 9781610917681. In this volume, the editors have assembled an expert panel of social and forest scientists to consider the nature of forests in flux and how to best balance the needs of forests and the rural communities closely tied to them. The book considers the temperate moist-coniferous forests...
Wiley Blackwell, 2014. — 251 p. Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on forest remnants that either escape or survive these intense fires is a recent phenomenon: academics now study ecological processes of wildfire residuals, forest policymakers use their patterns to design...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. — 261 p. — (Advances in Global Change Research). — ISBN: 978-94-007-7514-5. This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book...
Springer, 2009. — 358 p. — ISBN: 9048127947, 9789048127955 This volume provides an overview of recent advances in forest ecology on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, environmental factors controlling distribution of forests, impacts of disturbances on forests (fires, drought, hurricane), reproduction ecology of both...
Springer, 2011. — 202 p. — ISBN: 9400719353, 940071937X, 9789400719354 e-ISBN: 9789400719361 Focusing on the example of the Lost Pines forest of Texas, this book contextualises the present-day conservation of the Lost Pines within its wealth of historical and geological records. This in turn presents a realistic example for examining evolutionary dynamics models and how they...
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