By Guy R. Larocque
ISBN-10: 1482247860
ISBN-13: 9781482247862
Forests are valued not just for his or her fiscal capability, but additionally for the biodiversity they comprise, the ecological prone they supply, and the leisure, cultural, and religious possibilities they supply. The Ecological woodland administration Handbook offers a complete precis of interrelated subject matters within the box, together with administration ideas, wooded area types, and ecological indicators.
Featuring contributions from specialists at the 3 major woodland types―boreal, temperate, and tropical―this booklet offers in-depth assurance of vital concerns in ecological wooded area administration and contains case reviews addressing ecological and socioeconomic concerns. It illustrates how ecological woodland administration is a posh strategy that calls for extensive ecological wisdom whereas giving readers a deeper realizing of simple rules and applications.
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The second is that in natural post-fire stands, the dominant regeneration was black spruce and paper birch and not balsam fir. , shrubs) than occurred in stands that naturally recruit following moderate disturbances. In European forests, close-to-nature forestry may in fact be far from nature if continuous cover forestry eliminates the larger openings necessary for the recruitment of shade-intolerant species (Ligot et al. 2014). Current harvesting techniques are thus modifying forest composition at the landscape scale.
Diversifying silvicultural harvesting practices is a key to ecosystem management in Finland. Examples from forests in southern Finland where cuttings inspired by small or partial disturbances have been applied. (c) Abundant regeneration including deciduous trees in a gap in a pure spruce forest. , and S. Valkonen. 2014. Forest management inspired by natural disturbance dynamics (DISTDYN)—along-term research and development project in Finland. Scand. J. For. Res. 29:579–592. Kuuluvainen, T. 2009.
Denison, A. McKee, C. Maser, J. Sedell, F. Swanson, and G. Juday. 1981. Ecological characteristics of old-growth Douglas fir forests. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-118. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, 48p. us/pubs/5546 (viewed November 22, 2014). C. Baker, J. J. Beese, A. Brodie, J. B. Lindenmayer et al. 2012. Retention forestry to maintain multifunctional forests: A world perspective. BioScience 62:633–645. A. J. L. Ohmann. 1991. Conserving biodiversity in managed forests. BioScience 41:382–392.
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