Ecological Forest Management Handbook (Applied Ecology and Environmental Management)

by: Guy R. Larocque (Editor)

Publisher: CRC Press

Edition: 2nd

Publication Date: 2024/8/21

Language: English

Print Length: 584 pages

ISBN-10: 1032555173

ISBN-13: 9781032555171

Book Description

The second edition of 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 EDITIONProvides a comprehensive collection of sustainable forest management principles and their applicationsCovers new ecological indicators that can be applied to address forest environmental issuesIncludes all types of models:empirical, gap, and process-based modelsExplains several basic ecological and management concepts in a clear, easy-to- understand mannerThis handbook is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students studying and/or involved in the management of forest ecosystems.Chapter 18 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license.

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The second edition of 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 EDITIONProvides a comprehensive collection of sustainable forest management principles and their applicationsCovers new ecological indicators that can be applied to address forest environmental issuesIncludes all types of models:empirical, gap, and process-based modelsExplains several basic ecological and management concepts in a clear, easy-to- understand mannerThis handbook is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students studying and/or involved in the management of forest ecosystems.Chapter 18 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license.