Forest Pattern and Ecological Process
A Synthesis of 25 Years of Research
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Description
Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive
research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest
flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or
endangered species. It draws together major insights based on over 170 published
scientific papers and books, offering a previously unrecognised set of perspectives
of how forests function.
The book combines key strands of research on wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management. It is divided into seven sections: introduction and background; forest cover and the composition of the forest; the structure of the forest; animal occurrence; disturbance regimes; forest management; and overview and future directions.
Illustrated with more than 200 photographs and line drawings, Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is an essential reference for forest researchers, resource managers, conservation and wildlife biologists, ornithologists and mammalogists, policy makers, as well as general readers with interests in wildlife and forests.
- The extent of synthesis at a range of key levels
- The depth of new perspectives on forest processes and ecological patterns in one of the world’s truly great forests – the montane ash forests
- The breadth of past and very current research that is both pure and applied
- The range of key topics and how they are inter-twined – wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management.
Contents
Preamble
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction and background
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Background
Chapter 3: Field survey methods
Part II: Forest cover and composition of the forest
Chapter 4: The ash-type eucalypt forest
Chapter 5: The rainforest
Part III: The structure of the forest
Chapter 6: Key structural features: overstorey trees with hollows
Chapter 7: Key structural features: understorey trees and the shrub layer
Chapter 8: Key structural features: logs
Part IV: Animal occurrence
Chapter 9: Distribution and abundance of individual species
Chapter 10: Viability of populations of individual species
Chapter 11: Composition of animal communities
Part V: Disturbance regimes
Chapter 12: Natural disturbance regimes: fire
Chapter 13: Human disturbance: logging
Chapter 14: Salvage logging effects
Part VI: Forest management and biodiversity conservation
Chapter 15: Reserves
Chapter 16: Mitigating logging impacts
Chapter 17: Monitoring
Part VII: Conclusions and future directions
Chapter 18: Conclusions and future directions
Bibliography
Index
Sample
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Author Information
David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian National University. He has worked on Australian forests, wildfire, conservation biology and forest management for more than 27 years, and has published over 25 books and 550 scientific papers on these topics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, winner of the Whitley Award (twice), the inaugural DaimlerChrysler Prize, The Eureka Prize for Environmental Research and many other distinguished awards.
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