Forest Development: Succession, Environmental Stress and Forest Management Case Studies

by Achim Dohrenbusch (Editor), Norbert Bartsch (Editor)

Overview

Forest ecosystems are characterized by a steady change in their structure of function. Natural developments are more and more radically disturbed by human impact. Air pollution leads to soil acidification, change in nutrient budget and to a decreasing vitality of the trees. Forest management can prevent natural succession and often leads to less stable forests. In this book, selected results of 10 years of interdisciplinary ecosystem research are presented. Not only growth and physiological reactions on environmental stress, but also natural succession processes are described and analysed. Besides the description of forest development processes, based on longterm experiments and observation, conclusions for practical forest management are given.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642556630
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	21 MB
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Table of Contents

Content.- 1 Forest succession and water resources: soil hydrology and ecosystem water turnover in early, mid and late stages of a 300-yr-long chronosequence on sandy soil.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Methods.- 1.3 Water resources during forest succession.- 1.4 Changes in soil hydrology.- 1.5 Changes in ecosystem water turnover.- 1.6 Discussion.- References.- 2 Environmental impacts on forest ecosystems.- 2.1 Manipulation of nutrient and water input of a Norway spruce ecosystem.- 2.2 Effects of nutrient and water supply on growth and seed production of a Norway spruce stand.- 2.3 Vitality and nutrient level of Norway spruce trees under changed environmental conditions.- 3 Effects of management practices on ecosystem processes in European beech forests.- 3.1 Effects of group selection and liming on nutrient cycling in an European beech forest on acidic soil.- 3.2 Canopy disintegration and effects on element budgets in a nitrogen-saturated beech stand.- 4 Forest restoration on degraded sites.- 4.1 Amelioration of an acid forest soil by surface and subsurface liming and fertiliser application.- 4.2 Effects of soil amelioration on growth and nutrient supply of different tree species.- 4.3 Agricultural herbs as auxiliary plants in stand establishment.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book presents 9 papers from 16 German scientists on several aspects of forest development. … The main contribution of the book is to gather a number of long-term case studies … ." (Nathalie Bréda, Annals of Forest Science, Issue 5, 2003)

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