Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective

by Edited by John D. Castello , Stephen A. Teale

• ISBN13: 9780521747417
• ISBN10: 0521747414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural, managed, even-aged, uneven-aged and urban forests, as well as plantations. Readers of the text can use real datasets to assess the sustainability of four forests around the world. Datasets for the case studies are at www.cambridge.org/9780521766692, and the text provides stepwise instructions for performing the calculations in Microsoft Excel. Readers can follow along as the editors perform the same calculations and interpret the results. Elevating forest health from a fuzzy concept to an ecologically sound paradigm, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals interested in forest health, protection, entomology, pathology and ecology.

Author Biography

John D. Castello is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse. He has conducted research on the viruses that infect forest and shade trees in the USA, Germany, and New Zealand. Stephen A. Teale is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse. His research interests include forest entomology, chemical ecology, pheromones of forest insects, invasive species, and evolution of pheromone communication.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Forest health and mortality	p. 1
The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest health	p. 3
Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest	p. 17
How do we do it, and what does it mean? Forest health case studies	p. 50
Forest health and its ecological components	p. 79
Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic factors to a healthy forest	p. 81
Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on forest structure and function	p. 115
Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic factors, and mycorrhizae	p. 163
Earth, wind, and fire: abiotic factors and the impacts of global environmental change on forest health	p. 195
Forest health and the human dimension	p. 245
Timber harvesting, silviculture, and forest management: an axe does not a forester make	p. 247
Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest: can we have it all?	p. 277
Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health monitoring	p. 321
What did we learn, and where does it leave us? Concluding thoughts	p. 344
Microsoft® Excel® instructions for Chapter 2	p. 356
Microsoft® Excel® instructions for Chapter 3	p. 362
Glossary of terms	p. 372
Index	p. 383
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