This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habit…
« Environmental Data Analysis is an introductory statistics textbook for environmental science. It covers descriptive, inferential and predictive statistics, centred on the Generalized Linear Model. The key idea behind this book is to approach statistical analyses from the persp…
How do tree crowns, trees or forest stands respond to thinning in the long term? What effect do tree species mixtures and multi-layering have on the productivity and stability of trees, stands or forest enterprises? This book focuses on the experimental designs, analytical metho…
by Pukkala, Timo, Gadow, Klaus von
fromManaging Forest Ecosystems
by Pukkala, Timo, Gadow, Klaus von
fromManaging Forest Ecosystems
by Pukkala, Timo, Gadow, Klaus von
fromManaging Forest Ecosystems
Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are chan…
In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire preve…
In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire preve…
Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, clean water and recreation. In m…
Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide. It considers the interplay between tr…
Annotation This text offers a thorough, state-of-the-art examination of the science of carbon sequestration in forests, the management of forests for carbon and other values and the socio-economic and policy implications and challenges of managing forests for carbon.
Annotation This text offers a thorough, state-of-the-art examination of the science of carbon sequestration in forests, the management of forests for carbon and other values and the socio-economic and policy implications and challenges of managing forests for carbon.
