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Ecological Forest Management Handbook Second Edition - Taylor & Francis CRC Press [Imprint] 2024 - 1 online resource - Applied Ecology and Environmental Management .

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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 EDITION Provides a comprehensive collection of sustainable forest management principles and their applications Covers new ecological indicators that can be applied to address forest environmental issues Includes all types of models: empirical, gap, and process-based models Explains several basic ecological and management concepts in a clear, easy-to- understand manner This 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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9781003431084 9781032555171 9781032555188

10.1201/9781003431084 doi


Agriculture and farming
Biology, life sciences
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Environmental science, engineering and technology
Forestry and silviculture
Life sciences: general issues
Mathematics and Science
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

Biodiversity Changes In Temperature Disturbance Regimes Ecosystem Services Empirical Models Entomology Gap Models Health Indicators Precipitation And Atmospheric CO2 Process-Based Models Sustainable Development Tree and Forest Ecophysiological Processes Wildlife