Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | Forestry Sciences,
81 |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART 1. Sustainable Forestry & Conservation Objectives
- 1. A Burning Issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems
- 2. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences
- 3. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry
- 4. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing
- 5. Sustainable Forest Management in China: Achievements in the Past and Challenges Ahead
- 6. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of People’s Perspective
- PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide
- 7. Global trends and outlook for forest resources
- 8. Save the Forests : Use more wood
- PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change
- 9. Forests in the global carbon cycle
- 10. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change
- 11. Insect invasions and climate change in forest ecosystems
- PART 4. The Economics of Forestry
- 12. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation?
- 13. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities
- 14. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management
- PART 5. Tree Breeding & Commercial Forestry
- 15. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry
- 16. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry
- 17. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding
- 18. A reality check in population management
- 19. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding
- PART 6. Biotechnological approaches
- 20. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees
- 21. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees
- 22. Forest Biotechnology Futures
- 23. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China
- PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees
- 24. Genome resequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on specialized-trait genomics
- 25. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of forest trees
- PART 8. Bio-energy, lignin and wood
- 26. Willows as a potential source of renewable fuels and diverse products
- 27. Woodfuel production in the UK - unlocking the existing resource and growing for the future
- 28. Bioenergy opportunities from forests in New Zealand
- 29. Creating the wood supply of the future
- PART 9. Forest Science, including ecological studies
- 30. Planning for the future: Community genetics applications for forest biodiversity and policy
- 31. The long reach of biogenic emissions in the atmosphere
- 32. Ecological aspects of host-insect interactions on the example of Quercus robur and Tortrix viridana
- 33. Forests have survived climate changes and epidemics in the past. Will they continue to adapt and survive? At what cost?
- 34. Horse chestnut bleeding canker – a 21st Century tree pathogen
- 35. The use of small footprint airborne LiDAR for the estimation of individual tree parameters in Sitka spruce stands.