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 provide 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.
Features:
- Unifies the diverse fields of forest health under one umbrella, facilitating student learning and interdisciplinary study
- Provides case studies, exercises and stepwise instructions, and teaches students how to conduct their own forest health assessment
- Chapters address the essential concepts that bridge the gap between biology and forestry, encouraging a broad-based understanding of the diverse concepts needed to comprehensively understand and assess forest health
Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective
Preface
Part I. Forest Health and Mortality
The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest health
S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest
L. Zhang, B. D. Rubin and P. D. Manion
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
Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic factors to a
healthy forest
S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on forest
structure and function
D. Parry and S. A. Teale
Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic factors,
and mycorrhizae
R. D. Briggs and T. R. Horton
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
Silviculture, forest management, and forest health: an axe does
not a forester make
C. A. Nowak, R. H. Germain and A. P. Drew
Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest:
can we have it all?
S. P. Campbell, D. A. Patrick and J. P. Gibbs
Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health monitoring
M. Fierke, D. Nowak and R. Hofstetter
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
Publish Date: 2011
Format: 10" x 7" softcover
Pages: 404
Images: 80 images
Publication Weight: 3 lbs
Edited by John d. Castello and Stephen A. Teale