Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 5/19/2011
EAN 9780521766692, ISBN10: 0521766699

Hardcover, 404 pages, 25.4 x 18 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural, managed, even-aged, uneven-aged and urban forests, as well as plantations. Readers of the text can use real datasets to assess the sustainability of four forests around the world. Datasets for the case studies are at www.cambridge.org/9780521766692, and the text provides stepwise instructions for performing the calculations in Microsoft Excel. Readers can follow along as the editors perform the same calculations and interpret the results. Elevating forest health from a fuzzy concept to an ecologically sound paradigm, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals interested in forest health, protection, entomology, pathology and ecology.

Preface
Part I. Forest Health and Mortality
1. The past as key to the future
a new perspective on forest health S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
2. Mortality
the essence of a healthy forest L. Zhang, B. D. Rubin and P. D. Manion
3. How do we do it, and what does it mean?
forest health case studies J. D. Castello, S. A. Teale and J. A. Cale
Part II. Forest Health and its Ecological Components
4. Regulators and terminators
the importance of biotic factors to a healthy forest S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
5. Alien invasions
the effects of introduced species on forest structure and function D. Parry and S. A. Teale
6. Out of sight, underground
forest health, edaphic factors, and mycorrhizae R. D. Briggs and T. R. Horton
7. Earth, wind, and fire
abiotic factors and the impacts of global environmental change on forest health J. E. Lundquist, A. E. Camp, M. L. Tyrrell, S. J. Seybold, P. Cannon and D. J. Lodge
Part III. Forest Health and the Human Dimension
8. Silviculture, forest management, and forest health
an axe does not a forester make C. A. Nowak, R. H. Germain and A. P. Drew
9. Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest
can we have it all? S. P. Campbell, D. A. Patrick and J. P. Gibbs
10. Seeing the forest for the trees
forest health monitoring M. Fierke, D. Nowak and R. Hofstetter
11. What did we learn, and where does it leave us?
concluding thoughts J. D. Castello and S. A. Teale
Appendix A. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 2
Appendix B. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 3
Appendix C. Glossary of terms
Index.