Forest Soils and Ecosystem Sustainability

by Boyle, J. R.; Powers, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780444507143
• ISBN10: 0444507140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

Selected papers from the Ninth North American Forest Soils Conference, held at Tahoe City, CA, August 9-14, 1998. Reprinted from Elsevier Science Journal: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 138, Numbers 1-3, November 2000.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgement
Below ground processes in forest-ecosystem biogeochemical simulation models	p. 3
Soil organic matter processes: characterization by [superscript 13]C NMR and [superscript 14]C measurements	p. 19
Comparison of the behavior of soluble organic and inorganic nutrients in forest soils	p. 29
Effects of temperature and moisture on carbon respired from decomposing woody roots	p. 51
Nutrient inputs in litterfall and rainwater fluxes in 27-year old red, black and white spruce plantations in Central Ontario, Canada	p. 65
Scaling up or scaling down: the use of foliage and soil information for optimising the phosphate nutrition of radiata pine	p. 79
The nutrient cycling model: lessons learned	p. 91
Quantitative site and soil descriptors to improve the utility of forest soil surveys	p. 107
Soil-landscape resource assessment for plantations - a conceptual framework towards an explicit multi-scale approach	p. 123
Integrating forest soils information across scales: spatial prediction of soil properties under Australian forests	p. 139
Elemental storage of forest soil from local to global scales	p. 159
Effects of extensive forest management on soil productivity	p. 167
Sustained productivity in intensively managed forest plantations	p. 187
Response of radiata pine forests to residue management and fertilisation across a fertility gradient in New Zealand	p. 203
Additional carbon sequestration following repeated urea fertilization of second-growth Douglas-fir stands in western Washington	p. 225
Legacies of agriculture and forest regrowth in the nitrogen of old-field soils	p. 233
Nutrient availability and regeneration response after partial cutting and site preparation in eastern white pine	p. 249
Effects of selection harvest and prescribed fire on the soil nitrogen status of ponderosa pine forests	p. 263
Challenges of measuring forest floor organic matter dynamics: Repeated measures from a chronosequence	p. 273
Long-term effects of forest management on nutrient cycling in spruce-fir forests	p. 285
Impact of harvesting and atmospheric pollution on nutrient depletion of eastern US hardwood forests	p. 301
Cumulative management impacts on soil physical properties and early growth of Pinus radiata	p. 321
A review of chemical and physical properties as indicators of forest soil quality: challenges and opportunities	p. 335
Biological indices of soil quality: an ecosystem case study of their use	p. 357
Agricultural site productivity: principles derived from long-term experiments and their implications for intensively managed forests	p. 369
Soil solution and other soil analyses as indicators of nutrient supply: a review	p. 397
Simulations of pre- and post-harvest soil temperature, soil moisture, and snowpack for jack pine: comparison with field observations	p. 413
Soil properties important to the restoration of a Shasta red fir barrens in the Siskiyou Mountains	p. 427
Productivity of loblolly pine as affected by decomposing root systems	p. 435
Soil quality standards and guidelines for forest sustainability in northwestern North America	p. 445
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