Sustaining Young Forest Communities : Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA - Greenberg, Cathryn; Collins, Beverly; Thompson III, Frank; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
1. Introduction: What are Early Successional Habitats, Why are they Important, and How Can they be Sustained? -- 2. Subregional Variation in Upland Hardwood Forest Composition and Disturbance Regimes of the Central Hardwood Region -- 3. Natural Disturbances and Early Successional Habitats --  4. Fire in Eastern Hardwood Forests through 14,000 Years -- 5. Structure and Species Composition of Upland Hardwood Communities After Regeneration Treatments Across Environmental Gradients -- 6. Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Amount of Young Forests and Implications for Biodiversity -- 7. Herbaceous Response to Type and Severity of Disturbance -- 8. The Role of Young, Recently Disturbed Upland Hardwood Forest as High Quality Food Patches -- 9. Population Trends for Eastern Scrub-Shrub Birds Related to Availability of Small-diameter Upland Hardwood Forests -- 10. Bats and Gaps: The Role of Early Successional Patches in the Roosting and Foraging Ecology of Bats -- 11. Reptile and Amphibian Response to Hardwood Forest Management and Early Successional Habitats -- 12. Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife in Novel Places -- 13. Conservation of Early Successional Habitats in the Applachian Mountains: A Manager's Perspective -- 14. Early Successional Forest Habitats and Water Resources -- 15. Carbon Dynamics Following the Creation of Early Successional Habitats in Forests of the Central Hardwood Region -- 16. Forecasting Forest Type and Age Classes in the Appalachian-Cumberland Subregion of the Central Hardwood Region.
Keywords: Conservation biology; Ecology .; Wildlife; Fish; Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Applied ecology; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Applied Ecology