1. Introduction.- - Global to Local: Ecological Land Classification.- Land Classification and Ecosystem Classification.- 2. Global Frameworks.- Multi-Scale Ecosystem Analysis.- A National Ecosystems Framework for Monitoring and Reporting on Environmental Sustainability in Canada.- The ITE Land Classification: Providing an Environmental Stratification of Great Britain.- Spatial Scale-Dependent Policy Planning for Land Management in Southern Europe.- 3. Regional Frameworks.- A Spatial Hierarchical Framework for the Co-Management of Ecosystems in Canada and the United States for the Upper Great Lakes Region.- Development of a Multilevel Ecological Classification System for the State of Minnesota.- A Strategic Framework to Eco-Regionalize Ontario.- Ecosystem Mapping Methods for British Columbia.- An Ecological Framework for Resource Management in British Columbia.- Land District, Ecophysiographic Units and Areas: The Landscape Mapping of the Ministère des Ressources Naturalles du Québec.- 4. Subregional Frameworks.- Developing an Ecological Land Classification for the Fundy Model Forest,Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.- Ecological Mapping: A Framework for Delimiting Forest Management Units.- Application of the USDA Forest Service National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units at the Sub-Regional Level: The New England-New York Example.- Development of Ecological Land Classification and Mapping in Support of Forest Management in Northern Newfoundland, Canada.- Classification of Local- and Landscape-Scale Ecological Types in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.- 5. Local Frameworks.- Development of a Practical Forest Ecosystem Classification from Existing Biophysical Studies: An Approach Used in Northwestern Quebec.- A Forest Ecosystem Guide for the Amos LowlandsEcological Region, Northwestern Quebec: A Forest Management Approach.- Ecosystem Types of Boreal Forest in the North Klondike River Valley, Yukon Territory, and Their Productivity Potentials.- Impacts of Logging and Wildfire on an Upland Black Spruce Community in Northwestern Ontario.- A Community Classification System for Forest Evaluation: Development, Validation, and Extrapolation.- Landscape Ecosystem Classification in the Cherokee National Forest, East Tennessee, U.S.A..- Landtype-Forest Community Relationships: A Case Study on the Mid-Cumberland Plateau.- A Cooperative, Integrated Project to Classify Forest Sites in Newfoundland.- 6. Database Management.- The Development of an Ecological Classification Data Management and Analysis System for British Columbia.- The Countryside Information System: A Strategic-Level Decision Support System.- 7. Global to Local Modelling.- Linking Satellite and Field Survey Data, through the Use of Gis, as Implemented in Great Britain in the Countryside Survey 1990 Project.- Primary Databases for Forest Ecosystem Management - Examples from Ontario and Possibilities for Canada: Natgrid.- Forest Dynamics Modelling under Natural Fire Cycles: A Tool to Define Natural Mosaic Diversity for Forest Management.- Structural Characteristics of Post-Wildfire and Clearcut Landscapes.- 8. Soil Moisture Regime and Site Evaluation.- Classification of Moisture and Aeration Regimes in Sub-Boreal Forest Soils.- Tree Species in Relation to Soil Moisture Regime in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.- Effects of Decaying Wood on Eluviation, Podzolization, Acidification, and Nutrition in Soils with Different Moisture Regimes.- 9. Forest Site Quality and Productivity.- Forest Site-Quality Estimation Using Forest Ecosystem Classification in NorthwesternOntario.- Site Characteristics, Growth and Nutrition of Natural Red Pine Stands in Newfoundland.- A Soil-Site Evaluation Index of Productivity in Intensively Managed Pinus Radiata (D. Don) Plantations in South Australia.- 10. ELC-Based Management.- A Habitat-Based Microscale Forest Classification System for Zoning Wood Production Areas to Conserve a Rare Species Threatened by Logging Operations in South-Eastern Australia.- Use of Forest Ecosystem Classification Systems in Fire Management.- Forest Ecological Classification and Mapping: Their Application for Ecosystem Management in Newfoundland.- Ecological Land Classification as a Basic Theme for the Management of Wildlands in Tennessee: A Start.- 11. ELC-Based Research.- Genecological Variation Corresponding to Forest Ecosystem Classification Vegetation and Soil Types for Jack Pine and Black Spruce from Northwestern Ontario.- Diameter Distribution of Some Subalpine Fir Stands in Central British Columbia.
