Forest Development: Succession, Environmental Stress and Forest Management - Hardcover

 
9783540437680: Forest Development: Succession, Environmental Stress and Forest Management

Synopsis

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.

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

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ISBN 10:  3642628575 ISBN 13:  9783642628573
Publisher: Springer, 2012
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