Resource Assessment in Forested Landscapes

Resource Assessment in Forested Landscapes
Author: David D. Reed
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1997-10-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780471155829

This book covers forest mensuration--the process of counting, measuring, and estimating the economic value of a stand of trees. This process also involves measuring non-timber, landscape values such as soils, wildlife habitat, and hydrology.

Southern Forest Resource Assessment

Southern Forest Resource Assessment
Author: David N. Wear
Publisher:
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2002
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN:

The southern forest resource assessment provides a comprehensive analysis of the history, status, and likely future of forests in the Southern United States. Twenty-three chapters address questions regarding social/economic systems, terrestrial ecosystems, water and aquatic ecosystems, forest health, and timber management; 2 additional chapters provide a background on history and fire. Each chapter surveys pertinent literature and data, accesses conditions, identifies research needs, and examines the implications for southern forests and the benefits they provide.

Forest Landscape Restoration

Forest Landscape Restoration
Author: Stephanie Mansourian
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351620339

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes. The aim of this book is to explore options to better integrate the diverse dimensions - spatial, disciplinary, sectoral, and scientific - of implementing FLR. It demonstrates the value of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to help implement FLR focusing specifically on four issues: understanding the drivers of forest loss and degradation in the context of interdisciplinary responses for FLR; learning from related integrated approaches; governance issues related to FLR as an integrated process; and the management, creation and use of different sources of knowledge in FLR implementation. The emphasis is on recognising the need to take human and institutional factors into consideration, as well as the more obvious biophysical factors. A key aim is to advance and accelerate the practice of FLR, given its importance, particularly in a world facing increasing environmental challenges, notably from climate change. The first section of the book presents the issue from an analytical and problem-orientated viewpoint, while later sections focus on solutions. It will interest researchers and professionals in forestry, ecology, geography, environmental governance and landscape studies.

Ecological Bulletins, Targets and Tools for the Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity

Ecological Bulletins, Targets and Tools for the Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity
Author: Per Angelstam
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2009-05-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 144431307X

Maintaining forest biodiversity by combining protection, management and restoration of forest and woodland landscapes is a central component of sustainable development. Evidence that there are threshold levels for how much habitat loss may be tolerated for viable populations of specialised species to be maintained. Policy-makers, businesses and managers pose questions about how to balance use of renewable forest resources and conserve biodiversity. Examples are presented on how biodiversity assessments can be made. Proposes how the critical gaps in our knowledge identified throughout the book could be filled through macroecological research and international co-operation.

Forest Landscape Ecology

Forest Landscape Ecology
Author: Ajith H. Perera
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780387342436

Landscape ecology has generated a wealth of knowledge that could enhance forest policy, but little of this knowledge has found its way into practice. This the first book to introduce landscape ecologists to the discipline of knowledge transfer. The book considers knowledge transfer in general, critically examines aspects that are unique to forest landscape ecology, and reviews case studies of successful applications for policy developers and forest managers in North America.

Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns
Author: Tarmo K. Remmel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1493973312

This book explores the concepts, premises, advancements, and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping techniques. After several decades of development and use, these tools can now be examined for their foundations, intentions, scope, advancements, and limitations. When applied to natural forest landscapes, mapping techniques must address concepts such as stochasticity, heterogeneity, scale dependence, non-Euclidean geometry, continuity, non-linearity, and parsimony, as well as be explicit about the intended degree of abstraction and assumptions. These studies focus on quantifying natural (i.e., non-human engineered) forest landscape patterns, because those patterns are not planned, are relatively complex, and pose the greatest challenges in cartography, and landscape representation for further interpretation and analysis.