Ecological Land Classification (ELC) refers to the description of land resources at a range of spatial resolutions (i.e. global to local) and for a range of purposes or values. The emerging science of ELC is in fact a very carefully integrated blend of vegetation and earth sciences, climatology, cartography and ecology with a range of new technologies and methodologies including computer-based geographic information systems, remote sensing and simulation modelling.
This publication defines the current `state-of-the-art' of ELC. It provides particular insight into the role of ELC in current and future forest resource planning and management, and emphasizes its application and usefulness at various spatial scales, for a variety of geographic locations, and under a range of management scenarios/constraints. The book is an invaluable and substantial reference source about the current trends in ELC and will be of particular value to ecologists, foresters, geographers, resource managers, wildlife biologists, GIS and remote sensing specialists, educators and students.
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1. Introduction.- Global to Local: Ecological Land Classification.-
Land Classification and Ecosystem Classification.-
2. Global Frameworks.-
Multi-Scale Ecosystem Analysis.- A National Ecosystems Framework for
Monitoring and Reporting on Environmental Sustainability in Canada.- The ITE
Land Classification: Providing an Environmental Stratification of Great
Britain.- Spatial Scale-Dependent Policy Planning for Land Management in
Southern Europe.-
3. Regional Frameworks.- A Spatial Hierarchical Framework
for the Co-Management of Ecosystems in Canada and the United States for the
Upper Great Lakes Region.- Development of a Multilevel Ecological
Classification System for the State of Minnesota.- A Strategic Framework to
Eco-Regionalize Ontario.- Ecosystem Mapping Methods for British Columbia.- An
Ecological Framework for Resource Management in British Columbia.- Land
District, Ecophysiographic Units and Areas: The Landscape Mapping of the
Ministère des Ressources Naturalles du Québec.-
4. Subregional Frameworks.-
Developing an Ecological Land Classification for the Fundy Model
Forest,Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.- Ecological Mapping: A Framework
for Delimiting Forest Management Units.- Application of the USDA Forest
Service National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units at the
Sub-Regional Level: The New England-New York Example.- Development of
Ecological Land Classification and Mapping in Support of Forest Management in
Northern Newfoundland, Canada.- Classification of Local- and Landscape-Scale
Ecological Types in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.-
5. Local
Frameworks.- Development of a Practical Forest Ecosystem Classification from
Existing Biophysical Studies: An Approach Used in Northwestern Quebec.- A
Forest Ecosystem Guide for the Amos LowlandsEcological Region, Northwestern
Quebec: A Forest Management Approach.- Ecosystem Types of Boreal Forest in
the North Klondike River Valley, Yukon Territory, and Their Productivity
Potentials.- Impacts of Logging and Wildfire on an Upland Black Spruce
Community in Northwestern Ontario.- A Community Classification System for
Forest Evaluation: Development, Validation, and Extrapolation.- Landscape
Ecosystem Classification in the Cherokee National Forest, East Tennessee,
U.S.A..- Landtype-Forest Community Relationships: A Case Study on the
Mid-Cumberland Plateau.- A Cooperative, Integrated Project to Classify Forest
Sites in Newfoundland.-
6. Database Management.- The Development of an
Ecological Classification Data Management and Analysis System for British
Columbia.- The Countryside Information System: A Strategic-Level Decision
Support System.-
7. Global to Local Modelling.- Linking Satellite and Field
Survey Data, through the Use of Gis, as Implemented in Great Britain in the
Countryside Survey 1990 Project.- Primary Databases for Forest Ecosystem
Management Examples from Ontario and Possibilities for Canada: Natgrid.-
Forest Dynamics Modelling under Natural Fire Cycles: A Tool to Define Natural
Mosaic Diversity for Forest Management.- Structural Characteristics of
Post-Wildfire and Clearcut Landscapes.-
8. Soil Moisture Regime and Site
Evaluation.- Classification of Moisture and Aeration Regimes in Sub-Boreal
Forest Soils.- Tree Species in Relation to Soil Moisture Regime in
Northwestern Ontario, Canada.- Effects of Decaying Wood on Eluviation,
Podzolization, Acidification, and Nutrition in Soils with Different Moisture
Regimes.-
9. Forest Site Quality and Productivity.- Forest Site-Quality
Estimation Using Forest Ecosystem Classification in NorthwesternOntario.-
Site Characteristics, Growth and Nutrition of Natural Red Pine Stands in
Newfoundland.- A Soil-Site Evaluation Index of Productivity in Intensively
Managed Pinus Radiata (D. Don) Plantations in South Australia.-
10. ELC-Based
Management.- A Habitat-Based Microscale Forest Classification System for
Zoning Wood Production Areas to Conserve a Rare Species Threatened by Logging
Operations in South-Eastern Australia.- Use of Forest Ecosystem
Classification Systems in Fire Management.- Forest Ecological Classification
and Mapping: Their Application for Ecosystem Management in Newfoundland.-
Ecological Land Classification as a Basic Theme for the Management of
Wildlands in Tennessee: A Start.-
11. ELC-Based Research.- Genecological
Variation Corresponding to Forest Ecosystem Classification Vegetation and
Soil Types for Jack Pine and Black Spruce from Northwestern Ontario.-
Diameter Distribution of Some Subalpine Fir Stands in Central British
Columbia.
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