Old-Growth Forests Function, Fate and Value - Wirth, Christian; Gleixner, Gerd.; Heimann, Martin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value - an Overview -- Old-Growth Forest Definitions: a Pragmatic View -- Old Trees and the Meaning of 'Old' -- Aboveground Processes -- Ecophysiological Characteristics of Mature Trees and Stands - Consequences for Old-Growth Forest Productivity -- The Imprint of Species Turnover on Old-Growth Forest Carbon Balances - Insights From a Trait-Based Model of Forest Dynamics -- Functional Relationships Between Old-Growth Forest Canopies, Understorey Light and Vegetation Dynamics -- Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Old-Growth Forests: Processes and Pattern -- Woody Detritus its Contribution to Carbon Dynamics of Old-Growth Forests: the Temporal Context -- Belowground Processes -- Aboveground and Belowground Consequences of Long-Term Forest Retrogression in the Timeframe of Millennia and Beyond -- Rooting Patterns of Old-Growth Forests: is Aboveground Structural and Functional Diversity Mirrored Belowground? -- Soil Carbon Accumulation in Old-Growth Forests -- Is There a Theoretical Limit to Soil Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Forests? A Model Analysis with Contrasting Approaches -- Biomes -- Old-Growth Forests in the Canadian Boreal: the Exception Rather than the Rule? -- Biomass Chronosequences of United States Forests: Implications for Carbon Storage and Forest Management -- Temperate and Boreal Old-Growth Forests: How do Their Growth Dynamics and Biodiversity Differ from Young Stands and Managed Forests? -- Old-Growth Temperate Rainforests of South America: Conservation, Plant-Animal Interactions, and Baseline Biogeochemical Processes -- Tropical Rain Forests as Old-Growth Forests -- Human Dimensions -- Detecting Intact Forests from Space: Hot Spots of Loss, Deforestation and the UNFCCC -- Impacts of Land Use on Habitat Functions of Old-Growth Forests and their Biodiversity -- Old-Growth Forests in the Context of International Environmental Agreements -- Synthesis -- Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value - a Synthesis.
Keywords: Ecology .; Plant ecology; Forestry; Ecosystems; Conservation biology; Geobiology; Ecology; Plant Ecology; Forestry; Ecosystems; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Biogeosciences