Forest Ecosystems. Analysis at Multiple Scales

✍ Scribed by Richard H. Waring and Steven W. Running (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

• Praise for previous editions: ''Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation.'' --Ron Neilson, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis ''A nice synthesis and textbookfor forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well-balanced. The book will be a major contribution.'' --Michael G. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins ''There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used.'' --Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis ''The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely.'' --Hank Margolis, NASA Biospheric Sciences Branch
  

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface to the Third Edition, Page xi
Preface to the Second Edition, Page xiii
Preface to the First Edition, Pages xv-xvi
Acknowledgments, Pages xvii-xviii
Chapter 1 - Forest Ecosystem Analysis at Multiple Time and Space Scales, Pages 1-16
Section I - Introduction to Analysis of Seasonal Cycles of Water, Carbon, and Minerals through Forest Stands, Page 17
Chapter 2 - Water Cycle, Pages 19-57
Chapter 3 - Carbon Cycle, Pages 59-98
Chapter 4 - Mineral Cycles, Pages 99-144
Section II - Introduction to Temporal Scaling, Pages 145-147
Chapter 5 - Temporal Changes in Forest Structure and Function, Pages 149-182
Chapter 6 - Susceptibility and Response of Forests to Disturbance, Pages 183-219,I-II
Section III - Introduction to Spatial Scaling and Spatial/Temporal Modeling, Pages 221-223
Chapter 7 - Spatial Scaling Methods for Landscape and Regional Ecosystem Analysis, Pages 225-259,III-V
Chapter 8 - Regional and Landscape Ecological Analysis, Pages 261-289,VI-XIII
Chapter 9 - The Role of Forests in Global Ecology, Pages 291-316,XIV-XXII
Chapter 10 - Advances in Eddy-Flux Analyses Remote Sensing, and Evidence of Climate Change, Pages 317-344,XXIII-XXV
Epilogue, Page 345
Bibliography, Pages 347-408
Index, Pages 409-420