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Unleash the natural power and adaptability of forests with this cutting-edge guide. For generations, silvicultural systems have focused largely on models whose primary objective is the production of timber, leading to drastically simplified forests with reduced ecological richness, diversity, and complexity. Ecological silviculture, by contrast, focuses on producing and maintaining forests with "all their parts", that is, with the diversity and flexibility to respond and adapt to global changes. Ecological silviculture seeks to emulate natural development models and sustain healthy forests serving multiple values and goals.
Ecological Silvicultural Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to these approaches and their benefits tailored to diverse types of forests, designed for forest management professionals. It provides a series of exemplary models for ecological silviculture and surveys the resulting forest ecosystems. The result is a text that meets the needs of professionals in forestry and natural resource management with an eye towards sustaining healthy forest ecosystems, adapting them to climate change, protecting them from invasive species, and responding to changing market forces.
Ecological Silvicultural Systems readers will also find:
- Detailed treatment of forest ecosystems in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia
- A broad field of contributors with decades of combined expertise on multiple continents
- Discussion of pine woodlands; temperate hardwood forests, boreal forests, temperate rainforests, and more
Ecological Silvicultural Systems is a useful reference for professional foresters, wildlife habitat managers, restoration ecologists, and undergraduate and graduate students in any of these fields.
List of Contributors xv
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xix
1. The Context of Ecological Silviculture / Brian J. Palik and Anthony W. D'Amato 1
2. Ecological Silviculture for Great Lakes Red Pine Ecosystems / Brian J. Palik and Anthony W. D'Amato 11
3. Ecological Silviculture for Northern Hardwood Ecosystems of Northeastern U.S. / Anthony W. D'Amato 25
4. Ecological Silviculture in Douglas- fir-Western Hemlock Ecosystems / Abraham Wheeler, Jerry F. Franklin, and Stephanie J. Wessell 40
5. Ecological Silviculture for Longleaf Pine Woodlands in the Southeastern U.S. / Steven B. Jack, Benjamin O. Knapp, and R. Kevin McIntyre 53
6. Ecological Silviculture for Southeastern US Pine-Oak Forests / Justin L. Hart, J. Davis Goode, and Daniel C. Dey 67
7. Ecological Silviculture for Lowland Wet Conifer Forest Lake States / Marcella A. Windmuller-Campione, Laura F. Reuling, Robert A. Slesak, and Randy K. Kolka 81
8. Ecological Silviculture for Southern Appalachian Hardwood Forests / Jodi A. Forrester, Tara L. Keyser, and David K. Schnake 98
9. Ecological Silviculture for Yellow Birch-Conifer Mixedwoods in Eastern Canada / Patricia Raymond and Daniel Dumais 112
10. Ecological Silviculture of Black Spruce in Canadian Boreal Forests / Miguel Montoro Girona, Martin Alcala Pajares, and Maxence Martin 128
11. Ecological Silviculture for Acadian Forests / Robert S. Seymour 141
12. Ecological Silviculture for Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forests / Robert A. York 156
13. Ecological Silviculture for Aspen Mixedwoods in Western Canada / S. Ellen Macdonald, Philip G. Comeau, Charles A. Nock, and Brad D. Pinno 169
14. Ecological Silviculture for Interior Ponderosa Pine and Dry Mixed-Conifer Ecosystems / Andrew J. Larson and Derek J. Churchill 184
15. Ecological Silviculture for North American Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforests / Justin S. Crotteau, William J. Beese, John-Pascal Berrill, Robert L. Deal, Constance A. Harrington, and Kellen N. Nelson 199
16. Ecological Silviculture for Oak Ecosystems of the Central Hardwoods Region, USA / Miranda T. Curzon and John M. Kabrick 213
17. Ecological Silviculture for Fennoscandian Scots Pine Ecosystems / Timo Kuuluvainen and Timo Pukkala 229
18. Silvicultural Systems in the Mountain Ash Forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria, South-eastern Australia / David B. Lindenmayer 244
19. Ecological Silviculture for European Beech-Dominated Forest Ecosystems / Thomas A. Nagel, Miroslav Svoboda, Lucie Vitkova, and Dusan Ro enbergar 257
20. Ecological Silviculture for Chilean Temperate Rainforests / Pablo J. Donoso and Daniel P. Soto 271
21. The Place of Ecological Silviculture, Now and in the Future / Anthony W. D'Amato and Brian J. Palik 286
Index 292
Brian J. Palik, PhD, is a research ecologist with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA. He has published widely on the ecological sustainability of managed forests and related fields.
Anthony W. D'Amato, PhD, is Professor of Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology and Director of the Forestry Program at the University of Vermont, USA. He has researched and published extensively on long-term forest dynamics and silvicultural strategies to foster adaptive forests.