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Plant disturbance ecology : the process and the response /
The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods, ice storms, etc.) indicates the prevalence of natural disasters in most, if not all, ecosystems. In order for scientists to study, understand, and ultimately predict how these disturbances affect ecosystems, it is necessary for them...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/AP,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Disturbance and Succession
- Wind Processes
- The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies; Microbursts and macrobursts: windstorms and blowdowns; Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem breakage and canopy gap formation.
- Gravity Processes
- Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests; The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees
- Geomorphic Processes
- Disturbance processes and dynamics in coastal dunes; Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes; Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history traits of riparian tree species
- Hydrologic Processes
- Water level changes in ponds and lakes: the hydrological processes; Vegetation dynamics due to fluctuating water levels in prairie wetlands
- Combustion Processes
- Modeling heating effects; Fire effects on grass populations; Wildfire as a distributed tree population process
- Biotic Processes
- Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems; Modelling disturbance and recovery of lodgepole forest due to mountain pine beetle outbreaks on landscape scales; Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America; Impact of beaver foraging on structure of boreal forests; Beaver, willow shrubs and floods.
- Disturbance and succession / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi
- The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies / John J. Finnigan
- Microbursts and macrobursts : windstorms and blowdowns / Mark R. Hjelmfelt
- Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem breakage, and canopy gap formation / Christopher P. Quine and Barry A. Gardiner
- Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests / Kaz Higuchi and Amir Shabbar
- The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees / David F. Greene, Kathleen F. Jones, and Olga J. Proulx
- Disturbance processes and dynamics in coastal dunes / Patrick A. Hesp and M. Luisa Martínez
- Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes / Kiyoko Miyanishi and Edward A. Johnson
- Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history traits of riparian tree species / Futoshi Nakamura and Satomi Inahara
- Water level changes in ponds and lakes : the hydrological processes / Masaki Hayashi and Garth van der Kamp
- Development of post-disturbance vegetation in prairie wetlands / Arnold G. van der Valk
- Modeling heating effects / Geoffrey N. Mercer and Rodney O. Weber
- Fire effects on grasslands / Paul H. Zedler
- Wildfire and tree population processes / Sheri L. Gutsell and Edward A. Johnson
- Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems / Barry J. Cooke, Vincent G. Nealis, and Jacques Régnière
- Dynamics of mountain pine beetle outbreaks / Justin Heavilin, James Powell, and Jesse A. Logan
- Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America / Hubert Morin, Yves Jardon, and Régean Gagnon
- Impact of beaver (castor canadensis Kuhl) foraging on species composition of boreal forests / Noble T. Donkor.