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.
1. Ecological Forestry Derived from Knowledge on Natural Disturbances
Daniel Kneeshaw and Yves Bergeron
2. Triad Forest Management: Local Fix or Global Solution?
Austin Himes, Rebecca Tittler, Christian Messier, et al.
3. Forest Wildlife Management
Steven M. Grodsky, Christopher E. Moorman, and Kevin R. Russell
4. External Drivers of Changes Challenging Forestry: Political and Social Issues at Stake
Christine Farcy, Ronnie de Camino, Inazio Martinez de Arano, et. al.
5. Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management
Sarah King, Susan Preston, Christian Malouin, et al.
6. Growth and Yield Models for Predicting Tree and Stand Productivity
Robert Schneider, Modeste Meliho, Gianluca Segalina, et al.
7. Forest Succession Models
Guy R. Larocque, Herman H. Shugart, Weimin Xi, et al.
8. Process-based Models: A Synthesis of Models and Applications to Address Environmental and Management Issues
Guy R. Larocque, Alexander Komarov, Oleg Chertov, et al.
9. Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions
Weifeng Wang, Changhui Peng, and Guy R. Larocque
10. Modeling the Impacts of Pest Damage: Case Studies for Conifers in British Columbia, Canada
Michael G. Cruickshank, Rona N. Sturrock, Mario Di Lucca, et al.
11. Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management
Virginia Capmourteres and Madhur Anand
12. Considering Forest Biodiversity Indicators within the Pressure, State, Benefits, and Response Framework
F. Wayne Bell, Jennifer Dacosta, and Guy R. Larocque
13. Indicators of Forest Ecosystem Integrity
André Arsenault and Guy R. Larocque
14. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management
Michal Bosela, Guy R. Larocque, Tanya Baycheva, et al.
15. Indicating Forest Ecosystem and Stand Productivity: From Deductive to Inductive Concepts
Hans Pretzsch and Thomas Rötzer
16. Modeling for Forest Floor Biomass and N Accumulations including Turnover Rates
Paul A. Arp
17. Forest Ecosystem Health and Biotic Disturbances: Perspectives on Indicators and Management Approaches
Kishan Sambaraju, Simon Shamoun, Yan Boulanger, et al.
18. Application of Surface Modelling for Large Regions: A Case Study for Forest Carbon Stocks in China
Tian-Xiang Yue, Yi-Fu Wang, and Guy R. Larocque
19. Comprehensive Analysis of Land Tenure Effects on the Structure and Services of Regional Forest Ecosystems
Patrick Morin, Luc Sirois, and Luc Bouthillier
20. Forest Management and Climate Change: Adaptive Measures for the Temperate–Boreal Interface of Eastern North America
Laurent Gagné, Luc Sirois, and Luc Lavoie
