Forest Ecosystems: Analysis at Multiple Scales

by Botany (Soils) Waring Ph.D. 1963, Steven W. Running

Overview

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems. Further understanding is given to techniques to explore the changes in climatic cycles, the implications of wide-scale pollution, fire and other ecological disturbances that have a global effect. The inclusion of models, equations, graphs, and tabular examples provides readers with a full understanding of the methods and techniques. - Includes a revised section on important advances in regional scale analyses - Features an update to global scale analyses including revised color images - Provides a detailed comparison of predicted vs. observed tree diversity across 65 eco-regions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080546087
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	07/27/2010
Series:	Forest Ecosystems Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	440
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

www.fsl.orst.edu/~waring/Dr. Waring is an accomplished writter and professor of forest science. His notable publications include the first edition of Forest Ecosystems written in 1985. Waring, R.H. and W.H. Schlesinger. 1985. Forest ecosystems: Concepts and management. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL. 338 pSteven W. Running is trained as a terrestrial ecologist, receiving the B.S. (1972) and M.S. (1973) degrees from Oregon State University, and the Ph.D. (1979) degree in Forest Ecology from Colorado State University. He has been with the University of Montana, Missoula, since 1979, where he is a Professor of Ecology. His primary research interest is the development of global and regional ecosystem biogeochemical models by integration of remote sensing with climatology and terrestrial ecology. He is a Team Member for the NASA Earth Observing System, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and is responsible for the EOS global terrestrial net primary production and evaporative index datasets. He has published over 240 scientific articles. He currently serves on the standing Committee for Earth Studies of the National Research Council, and on the federal Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Committee. He is a Co-Chair of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model Land Working Group, a Member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Executive Committee, and the World Climate Research Program, Global Terrestrial Observing System. Dr. Running is a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Prof. Running is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and is designated a Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information.

Table of Contents

1. Forest Ecosystem Analysis at Multiple Time and Space ScalesI. Introduction II. The Scientific Domain of Forest Ecosystem AnalysisIII. The Space/Time Domain of Ecosystem AnalysisIV. Time and Space Scaling from the Stand/Seasonal LevelV. Management Applications of Ecosystem AnalysisVI. Related TextbooksVII. Web Site for Updated MaterialsSection I. Introduction to Analysis of Seasonal Cycles of Water, Carbon, and Minerals through Forest Stands2. Water CyclesI. IntroductionII. Heat and Water Vapor Transfer from VegetationIII. Water Flow through TreesIV. Water Storage and Losses from SnowV. Water Flow across and through SoilVI. Coupled Water Balance ModelsVII. Summary3. Carbon CycleI. IntroductionII. PhotosynthesisIII. Autotrophic RespirationIV. Heterotrophic RespirationV. Modeling Photosynthesis and RespirationVI. Net Primary Production and AllocationVII. Comparison of Forest Ecosystem ModelsVIII. Summary4. Mineral CyclesI. IntroductionII. Plant Processes Affecting Nutrient CyclingIII. Sources of NutrientsIV. Soil and Litter ProcessesV. Mass Balance and Models of Mineral CyclesVI. SummarySection II. Introduction to Temporal Scaling5. Temporal Changes in Forest Structure and FunctionI. IntroductionII. Structural Stages in Stand DevelopmentIII. Functional Responses of Stands at Different Stages in DevelopmentIV. Looking Back in TimeV. Ecosystem Models, Projections Forward in TimeVI. Summary6. Susceptibility and Response of Forests to DisturbanceI. IntroductionII. Biotic FactorsIII. Abiotic FactorsIV. Summary Section III. Introduction to Spatial Scaling and Spatial/Temporal Modeling7. Spatial Scaling Methods for Landscape and Regional Ecosystem AnalysisI. IntroductionII. Abiotic Site VariablesIII. Providing the Driving Variables, ClimatologyIV. Describing the EcosystemV. Spatially Explicit Landscape Pattern AnalysisVI. Data Layer InconsistenciesVII. Summary8. Regional and Landscape Ecological AnalysisI. IntroductionII. Horizontal Connections: Biotic Analysis of Forest PatternsIII. Vertical Connections: Forest-Atmosphere InteractionsIV. Vertical and Horizontal Connections: Regional BiogeochemistryV. Summary9. The Role of Forests in Global EcologyI. IntroductionII. Global Forest DistributionIII. Forest-Climate InteractionsIV. Forests in the Global Carbon CycleV. Forests and BiodiversityVI. Sustainability of Global ForestsVII. Summary10. Advances in Eddy-Flux Analyses, Remote Sensing, and Evidence of Climate ChangeI. IntroductionII. Eddy-Covariance FluxesIII. New Remote Sensing of ForestsIV. Climate Change and ForestsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

What People are Saying About This

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Revised version of the one source for forest ecosystem analysis

Editorial Reviews

The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely.

Hank Margolis

A nice synthesis and textbook for forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well balanced. The book will be a major contribution.

Michael G. Ryan

Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation.

Ron Neilson

The best part of the book is, undoubtedly, where the importance of forests in a landscape to global scale context are discussed, and modern techniques for analysing large-scale problems presented.

Annals Of Botany

This work adds critically important information on temporal and spatial scaling through modeling... A detailed treatment of concepts and tools that will shape forest science for decades to come.

Choice

There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used.

Kate Lajtha

...very well written and esay-to-follow text. ...I recommend this text for graduate students and advanced professionals in forest ecology and ecosystem science with knowledge in plant physiology, biophysics, ecological modeling, soils, hydrology, and vegetation science.

J. Chen

Explains methods for integrating the analysis of forests at the individual stand, landscape, regional, continental, and global scales. Introduces a framework and a set of tools that provide a quantitative basis for judging the implications of a wide variety of forest management decisions of the natural resource base. The 1985 edition, a solo effort by Waring, is here revised to emphasize quantitative modeling and extrapolations across large spatial and time scales. The CD-ROM is also new, and contains animated images and computer code for two of the models presented. Suitable as a graduate or undergraduate textbook. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Praise for previous editions: "Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation." —Ron Neilson, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis

"A nice synthesis and textbookfor forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well-balanced. The book will be a major contribution."  —Michael G. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins

"There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used." —Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis

"The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely." —Hank Margolis, NASA Biospheric Sciences Branch

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