The current trend in managing forests and forested landscapes is away from a narrow focus on sustaining timber and other commodity outputs and toward a broader philosophy of sustaining desired ecosystems. This shift has been wrought by and is consistent with changing social values, scientific advances in ecology, and society's increasing awareness of environmental problems.This book is therefore designed and intended as a source of ideas on how to think about oak forests as responsive ecosystems. Divided into two sections, the book focuses on oak ecosystems in the United States as well as providing much application to other regions such as Europe and the Mediterranean. The first section includes chapters on the ecological characteristics and distribution of oak species and the various kinds of oak forests in the United States, differences among them and how they have been classified. The second section includes chapters on site productivity, stand development, silviculture, and growth and yield.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Wallingford
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 172 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-570-0 (9780851995700)
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Paul S. Johnson is a retired research forester who began his professional career as an instructor at Michigan State University. He subsequently joined the U.S Forest Service, Northern Research Station, in Columbia, Missouri, where he worked for more than 30 years. He has been the creator and driving force behind the first and subsequent editions of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Paul is an accomplished photographer, historian and essayist. He has employed those skills to author other books on other topics including:
Where Pelicans Fly--A Celebration of the Extraordinary Everyday (ISBN-13: 978-1479309580).
Chequamegon: A Dispatch from Northern Wisconsin (ISBN-13: 978-1077886896).
A Place Called Chequamegon (ASIN: ?B0CB7MCPXZ). Stephen Shifley is a retired research forester who for 41 years worked for the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. His major research topics included modelling growth and yield of hardwood forests, quantifying forest stand dynamics, modelling landscape-scale patterns of forest change in response to disturbance, quantifying structure and composition of old-growth forests in the Midwest U.S., and quantifying regional indicators of forest sustainability. He has published more than 150 scientific and technical manuscripts. Beginning in 2000, he has coauthored the first three editions of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Robert (Bob) Rogers is a retired professor of forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he spent more than 30 years educating the next generation of forest managers. In the 1990s he and Paul Johnson developed the initial concept and outline for a project that eventually became the first edition of the Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Bob's areas of expertise include how soil-site relationships affect forest development and the application of quantitative methods to manage forests
Autor*in
Formerly US Forest Service, USA
Formerly US Forest Service, USA
Formerly University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA
Part I: Ecology 1: Oak-dominated ecosystems 2: Regeneration ecology I. Flowering, fruiting and reproduction characteristics 3: Regeneration ecology II. Population dynamics Part II: Site productivity and stand development 4: Site productivity 5: Development of natural stands 6: Self-thinning and stand density Part III: Silviculture, growth and yield 7: Even-aged silvicultural methods 8: Uneven-aged silvicultural methods 9: Silvicultural methods for multi-resource management 10: Growth and yield