Sustaining Young Forest Communities : Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Colección: | Managing Forest Ecosystems,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.