Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective - Softcover

Castello, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521747414 ISBN 13: 9780521747417

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

John 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 US, Germany and New Zealand.

Stephen 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521747414
• ISBN 13: 9780521747417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404