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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Concepts
- Chapter 1. Emulating Natural Disturbance in Forest Management: An Overview
- Chapter 2. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: What Does This Mean?
- Chapter 3. The Ecological and Genetic Basis for Emulating Natural Disturbance in Forest Management: Theory Guiding Practice
- Chapter 4. Characterizing Natural Forest Disturbance Regimes: Concepts and Approaches
- Chapter 5. Predicting Fire Regimes at Multiple Scales
- Chapter 6. Predicting Forest Insect Disturbance Regimes for Use in Emulating Natural Disturbance
- Part II. Applications: Understanding Forest Disturbances
- Chapter 7. Empirical Approaches to Modeling Wildland Fire in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States: Methods and Applications to Landscape Simulation
- Chapter 8. Simulating Forest Fire Regimes in the Foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Chapter 9. Spatial Simulation of Broad-Scale Fire Regimes as a Tool for Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbance
- Chapter 10. Simulating the Effects of Forest Fire and Timber Harvesting on the Hardwood Species of Central Missouri
- Chapter 11. Using Insect-Caused Patterns of Disturbance in Northern New Brunswick to Inform Forest Management
- Chapter 12. Using Criteria Based on the Natural Fire Regime to Evaluate Forest Management in the Oregon Coast Range of the United States
- Chapter 13. Using a Decision Support System to Estimate Departures of Present Forest Landscape Patterns from Historical Reference Conditions: An Example from the Inland Northwest Region of the United States
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 15. A Conservation Perspective on Emulating Natural Disturbance in the Management of Boreal Forests in Ontario
- Chapter 16. Consequences of Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: A Canadian Forest Industry Perspective
- Chapter 17. An Economic Perspective on Emulation Forestry and a Case Study on Woodland Caribou-Wood Production Trade-Offs in Northern Ontario
- Chapter 18. Developing Forest Management Strategies Based on Fire Regimes in Northwestern Quebec
- Chapter 19. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: Applications for Silvicultural Systems in the Northern Great Lakes Region of the United States
- Chapter 20. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the United States
- Chapter 21. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance: From Policy to Practical Guidance in Ontario
- Part IV. Conclusion
- Chapter 22. Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: A Synthesis
- References
- Index