This new edition of the Ecological Forest Management Handbook provides readers with basic principles of forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels. Updated and revised, it addresses numerous topics and includes new studies on ecological indicators, the carbos cycle, and ecosystem simulation models.
The second edition of the Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels. Thoroughly updated and revised, the handbook addresses numerous topics and explains that ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge. It discusses how to develop adaptive management scenarios to harvest resources in a sustainable way and provide ecosystem services and social functions. It includes new studies on ecological indicators, the carbon cycle, and ecosystem simulation models for various forest types: boreal, temperate, and tropical forests.
New in the Second Edition:
- Provides a comprehensive collection of sustainable forest management principles and their applications.
- Covers new ecological indicators that can be applied to address forest environmental issues.
- Includes all types of models: empirical, gap, and process-based models.
- Explains several basic ecological and management concepts in a clear, easy-to-understand manner.
This handbook is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students studying and/or involved in the management of forest ecosystems.
Section I: Forest Management Concepts.
1. Ecological Forestry Derived
from Knowledge on Natural Disturbances.
2. Triad Forest Management: Local Fix
or Global Solution?
3. Forest Wildlife Management.
4. External Drivers of
Changes Challenging Forestry: Political and Social Issues at Stake.
5.
Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management. Section II: Forest
Models.
6. Growth and Yield Models for Predicting Tree and Stand
Productivity.
7. Forest Succession Models.
8. Process-Based Models: A
Synthesis of Models and Applications to Address Environmental and Management
Issues.
9. Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest
Management: Challenges and Future Directions.
10. Modeling the Impacts of
Pest Damage: Case Studies for Conifers in British Columbia, Canada. Section
III: Ecological Indicators.
11. Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity
in the Context of Ecological Forest Management.
12. Considering Forest
Biodiversity Indicators within the Pressure, State, Benefits, and Response
Framework.
13. Indicators of Forest Ecosystem Integrity.
14. Criteria and
Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management.
15. Indicating Forest Ecosystem
and Stand Productivity: From Deductive to Inductive Concepts.
16. Modeling
Forest Floor Biomass and N Accumulations and Related Turnover Rates.
17.
Forest Ecosystem Health and Biotic Disturbances: Perspectives on Indicators
and Management Approaches. Section IV: Addressing Ecological and
Socioeconomic Issues.
18. Application of Surface Modeling for Large Regions:
A Case Study for Forest Carbon Stocks in China.
19. Comprehensive Analysis of
Land Tenure Effects on the Structure and Services of Regional Forest
Ecosystems.
20. Forest Management and Climate Change: Adaptive Measures for
the TemperateBoreal Interface of Eastern North America.
Guy R. Larocque, PhD, is a research scientist for the Canadian Forest Service, a sector of Natural Resources Canada, at the Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Natural Resources Management at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada). Dr. Larocque is Associate Editor of Ecoscience. Until recently, he served on the editorial board of Ecological Modelling. He has published papers on productivity and succession, carbon cycles, uncertainty analysis, and the development of empirical, succession (gap), and process-based models for forest ecosystems and was Guest Editor of special issues in Ecological Modelling, Écoscience and Forests.
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