Old-Growth Forests Function, Fate and Value /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Wirth, Christian. (Editor ), Gleixner, Gerd. (Editor ), Heimann, Martin. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 207
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92706-8
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.