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Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances : Concepts and Applications.
What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing a range of geographic perspectives from across Canada and the United States, this book look...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Concepts; 1 Emulating Natural Disturbance in Forest Management: An Overview; 2 Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: What Does This Mean?; 3 The Ecological and Genetic Basis for Emulating Natural Disturbances in Forest Management: Theory Guiding Practice; 4 Characterizing Natural Forest Disturbance Regimes: Concepts and Approaches; 5 Predicting Fire Regimes at Multiple Scales; 6 Predicting Forest Insect Disturbance Regimes for Use in Emulating Natural Disturbance.
- PART II Applications: Understanding Forest Disturbances7 Empirical Approaches to Modeling Wildland Fire in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States; 8 Simulating Forest Fire Regimes in the Foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains; 9 Spatial Simulation of Broad-Scale Fire Regimes as a Tool for Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbance; 10 Simulating the Effects of Forest Fire and Timber Harvesting on the Hardwood Species of Central Missouri; 11 Using Insect-Caused Patterns of Disturbance in Northern New Brunswick to Inform Forest Management.
- 12 Using Criteria Based on the Natural Fire Regime to Evaluate Forest Management in the Oregon Coast Range of the United States13 Using a Decision to Support System to Estimate Departures of Present Forest Landscape Patterns from Historical Reference Conditions; 14 Changes in Tree Species Composition from Pre-European Settlement to Present: A Case Study of the Temagami Forest, Ontario; PART III Applications: Perspectives, Practices, and Policy; 15 A Conservation Perspective on Emulating Natural Disturbance in the Management of Boreal Forests in Ontario.
- 16 Consequences of Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: A Canadian Forest Industry Perspective17 An Economic Perspective on Emulation Forestry and a Case Study on Woodland Caribou-Wood Production Trade-Offs in Northern Ontario; 18 Developing Forest Management Strategies Based on Fire Regimes in Northwestern Quebec; 19 Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: Applications for Silvicultural Systems in the Northern Great Lakes Region of the United States; 20 Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the United States.
- 21 Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: From Policy to Practical Guidance in OntarioPART IV Conclusion; 22 Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: A Synthesis; References; Index.