Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes: Multiple Use and Sustainable Management

✍ Scribed by Jiquan Chen, Kimberley D. Brosofske, Raffaele Lafortezza (auth.), Raffaele Lafortezza, Giovanni Sanesi, Jiquan Chen, Thomas R. Crow (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration – the pattern – of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients. Understanding these issues is key to the successful management of complex, multifunctional forest landscapes, and landscape ecology, based on a foundation of island bio-geography and meta-population dynamic theories, provides the rationale to deal with this pattern-to-process interaction at different spatial and temporal scales.

This carefully edited volume represents a stimulating addition to the international literature on landscape ecology and resource management. It provides key insights into some of the applicable landscape ecological theories that underlie forest management, with a specific focus on how forest management can benefit from landscape ecology, and how landscape ecology can be advanced by tackling challenging problems in forest (landscape) management. It also presents a series of case studies from Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and Australia exploring the issues of disturbance, diversity, management, and scale, and with a specific focus on how human intervention affects forest landscapes and, in turn, how landscapes influence humans and their culture.

An important reference for advanced students and researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, natural resource management and ecology across multiple scales, the book will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in reserve design, ecological restoration, forest management, landscape planning and landscape architecture.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ecology and Management of Forest Landscapes....Pages 3-16
Cultural Determinants of Spatial Heterogeneity in Forest Landscapes....Pages 17-32
Managing Forest Landscapes for Climate Change....Pages 33-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Great Siberian Forest: Challenges and Opportunities of Scale....Pages 47-66
Fragmentation of Forest Landscapes in Central Africa: Causes, Consequences and Management....Pages 67-87
Human-Induced Alterations in Native Forests of Patagonia, Argentina....Pages 89-105
Landscape-Scale Factors Influencing Forest Dynamics in Northern Australia....Pages 107-124
Spatial Patterns and Ecology of Shifting Forest Landscapes in Garo Hills, India....Pages 125-139
Synthesis....Pages 141-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Tools for Understanding Landscapes: Combining Large-Scale Surveys to Characterize Change....Pages 149-166
Shape Irregularity as an Indicator of Forest Biodiversity and Guidelines for Metric Selection....Pages 167-189
Land Suitability for Short Rotation Coppices Assessed through Fuzzy Membership Functions....Pages 191-211
Assessing Human Impacts on Australian Forests through Integration of Remote Sensing Data....Pages 213-239
Habitat Quality Assessment and Modelling for Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability....Pages 241-264
Synthesis....Pages 265-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
The Role of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative in Forest Landscape Changes in Texas, USA....Pages 273-295
Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Tropical Forest Landscapes....Pages 297-322
Forest Management and Carbon Sink Dynamics: a Study in Boreal and Sub-Alpine Forest Regions....Pages 323-340
Emulating Natural Disturbance Regimes: an Emerging Approach for Sustainable Forest Management....Pages 341-372
Conserving Forest Biodiversity: Recent Approaches in UK Forest Planning and Management....Pages 373-398
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Synthesis....Pages 399-401
Appendix A....Pages 403-422
Back Matter....Pages 423-425

✦ Subjects

Landscape Ecology; Forestry Management; Biodiversity; Nature Conservation; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry