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Author Perera, Ajith H

Title Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances : Concepts and Applications
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents 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the United States13 Using a Decision to Support System to Estimate Departures of Present Forest Landscape Patterns from Historical Reference Conditions; 14 Changes in Tree Species Composition from Pre-European Settlement to Present: A Case Study of the Temagami Forest, Ontario; PART III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
Summary 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 looks at the escalating public debate on the viability of natural disturbance emulation for sustaining forest landscapes from the perspective of policymakers, forestry professionals, academics, and conservationists. This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framewor
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Subject Forest management -- United States
Forest ecology -- United States
Ecological disturbances -- United States
Forest management -- Canada
Forest ecology -- Canada
Ecological disturbances -- Canada
Ecological disturbances
Forest ecology
Forest management
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Forestry.
Canada
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Buse, Lisa J. (Lisa Jean), 1962-
Weber, Michael G. (Forester)
ISBN 9780231503082
0231503083
0231129173
9780231129176