Long-Term Response of a Forest Watershed Ecosystem
Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians
Published on 27. March 2014
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-19-537015-7 (ISBN)
Description
This latest addition to the Long-Term Ecological Research Network series gives an overarching account of the recovery and management of a forest watershed ecosystem. It synthesizes and cross-references important and rare-to find, long-term data in 14 chapters that deal with the hydrologic, biogeochemical, and ecological processes of mixed deciduous forests. The data is representative of the entire U.S., and shows the effects of commercial clearcutting using examples from the Southeastern U.S. and a range of East coast forests. It includes responses of both forest and stream components of the watershed and provides unique insights into the interrelationships between the effects of natural disturbances (floods, droughts, insects, and disease, etc.) versus management disturbances.
Clearly illustrating the importance and need for long-term research to evaluate recovery processes of long-lived ecosystems, the work will serve academics, professionals, and students seeking to understand more fully the effects of forest-cutting on forest and stream ecosystems.
Clearly illustrating the importance and need for long-term research to evaluate recovery processes of long-lived ecosystems, the work will serve academics, professionals, and students seeking to understand more fully the effects of forest-cutting on forest and stream ecosystems.
Reviews / Votes
"No serious student of forest hydrology or ecology can survive long without encountering the name "Coweeta." The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in North Carolina has rightly become world-famous across a broad spectrum of environmental science. It is well over 20 years since the last compilation of Coweeta research appeared in book form, and this volume provides a very welcome update." --Professor Tim Burt, Durham University"Forest watershed research is reaching an age when some long-term trends - or the lack of them - can be evaluated. Aside from its great value as a synthesis of a comprehensive long-term research project in and of itself, this volume is a welcome scientifically objective investigation of the long-term effects of forest harvesting. This volume should reside on the bookshelves of scientists (both basic and applied), educators, policy makers, and environmental
advocates." --Dale Johnson, Emeritus Professor, University of Nevada
"This volume is a most compelling case on the value and necessity of long-term research on ecological patterns and processes. Findings summarized here are applicable way beyond the ecology and management of southern Appalachian hardwoods, by providing a framework on improving both economic and ecological values with appropriate forest management practices." --Donald J. Leopold, Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
66 line art, 18 halftone
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
619 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-537015-7 (9780195370157)
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Additional editions
Wayne T. Swank | Jackson R. Webster
Long-Term Response of a Forest Watershed Ecosystem
Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians
E-Book
02/2014
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€27.49
Available for download
Persons
Wayne T. Swank is Scientist Emeritus, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, and Adjunct Professor at both the University of Georgia and Clemson University. Jackson R. Webster is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech, which is officially Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Content
Table of Contents ; Chapter 1- Introduction: programmatic background, site description, experimental approach and treatment, natural disturbances. ; Wayne T. Swank and Jackson R. Webster. ; Chapter 2- Successional forest dynamics: 20 years following clearcutting. ; Lindsay R. Boring, Katherine J. Elliott, and Wayne T. Swank ; Chapter 3- Response and recovery of water yield and timing, stream sediment, abiotic parameters, and stream chemistry. ; Wayne T. Swank, Jennifer D. Knoepp, James M. Vose, Stephanie Laseter, and Jackson R. Webster. ; Chapter 4- Long-and short-term changes in soil nutrient availability following logging. ; Jennifer D. Knoepp, Bruce L. Haines, Wayne T. Swank. ; Chapter 5- Soluble organic nutrient fluxes. ; Robert G. Qualls, Bruce L. Haines, Wayne T. Swank. ; Chapter 6- Dynamics of dissolved organic carbon in a stream during a quarter century of forest succession. ; Judy L. Meyer, Jackson R. Webster, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and E. F. Benfield. ; Chapter 7- Woody debris decomposition and its contribution to the forest floor and soil on watershed 7. ; Kim G. Mattson and Wayne T. Swank ; Chapter 8- Recovery of decomposition and soil microarthropod communities. ; Liam Heneghan and Alissa Salmore ; Chapter 9- Canopy Arthropods ; Barbara C. Reynolds, Timothy D. Schowalter, and D. A. Crossley, Jr. ; Chapter 10- Recovery of particulate organic matter dynamics in a stream draining a logged watershed-- a pressing situation. ; Jackson R. Webster, E. F. Benfield, Stephen W. Golladay, and Matthew E. McTammany. ; Chapter 11- Stream macroinvertebrate response to clearcut logging. ; J. Bruce Wallace and Damon Ely. ; Chapter 12- Comparisons with results from the Fernow Experimental forest in the central Appalachians. ; Mary Beth Adams and James N. Kochendenfer. ; Chapter 13- Comparisons with results from the Hubbard Brook Experimental forest in the northern Appalachians. ; James W. Hornbeck, Amey S. Bailey, Christopher Eagar, and John L. Campbell. ; Chapter 14- Ecosystem stability and forest watershed management: A synthesis from 30+ years of research on WS7. ; Jackson R. Webster, Wayne T. Swank, James M. Vose, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and Katherine J. Elliott.