The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem (eBook, PDF)

Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration
Redaktion: Jose, Shibu; Miller, Deborah L.; Jokela, Eric J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The longleaf pine ecosystem, once one of the most extensive in North America, has been reduced over the past few centuries to about 2.2% of its original size. Still, the range of the longleaf still extends from Florida and the Carolinas to Texas, and extensive conservation and restoration programs are underway. The pines are valued for their aesthetic appeal, and for the habitats they provide, as well as for the quality of their lumber. Longleaf pines are naturally resistant to fire and some insects, and support more than thirty threatened or endangered plant and animal species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the gopher tortoise. This book unites a wealth of current information on the ecology, silviculture and restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem, and includes a discussion of the historical, social and political aspects of longleaf pine ecosystem management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387306872
• Artikelnr.: 37286908

Autorenporträt

Dr. Shibu Jose is Associate Professor of Forest Ecology and Dr. Eric J. Jokela is Professor of Silviculture at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dr. Deborah L. Miller is Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida in Milton.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:

Introduction.- Longleaf pine ecosystem: An overview.- History and future of the longleaf pine ecosystem.- Ecological Classification of longleaf pine woodlands.- Longleaf pine regeneration ecology and methods.- Plant competition, facilitation, and overstory- understory interactions in longleaf pine ecosystems.- Vertebrate faunal diversity of longleaf pine ecosystems.- Uneven-aged silviculture of longleaf pine.- Longleaf pine growth and yield.- Restoring the overstory of longleaf pine ecosystems.- Restoring the ground layer of longleaf pine ecosystems.- Reintroduction of fauna to longleaf pine ecosystems: Opportunities and challenges.- Spatial ecology and restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem.- Longleaf pine restoration: Economics and policy.- Role of public-private partnerships in restoration: A case study.

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"... Die von Pinus palustris beherrschte Waldfläche ... gilt heute als eine Existenz bedrohte Baumart in Nordamerika. Das erklärt das neu erwachte Interesse an dieser Art, der mit dem vorliegenden Werk eine umfassende Studie gewidmet ist. Sie umfasst vier Hauptabschnitte: Einführung mit Geschichte und Gegenwart der Ökosysteme, Ökologie, Waldbau und Wiederherstellung von Pinus palustris geprägter Waldtypen. Das Werk kann als vorbildlich für eine moderne forstliche Monographie gelten und wird daher sicherlich auch über Nordamerika hinaus Interesse finden." -- (Ernst Röhrig, in: Forstarchiv, 2006, Vol. 77, Issue 6, S. 225)