The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks Edition 3

Hardback
May 2019
9781780647081
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    9th May 2019
  • ISBN 9781780647081
  • Language English
  • Pages 648 pp.
  • Size 6.75" x 9.6"
  • Images b/w photos, charts & graphs
$230.55

This new, updated third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks examines the new challenges in sustaining oak forest ecosystems in a changing world. It is essential reading for forest ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists and wildlife managers.

Oak forests are the result of extensive and frequent disturbances that have occurred over hundreds of years such as exploitative timber harvesting, land clearing for agriculture, recurrent burning, and free-range livestock grazing. These disturbances, perhaps counter-intuitively, have created conditions favorable for sustaining oaks. But today, as those disturbances have largely disappeared and as oak forests have matured, a new problem has arisen: the widespread failure of oaks to regenerate. Oak regeneration failures and other ecological issues have become increasingly problematic under the social and economic constraints of contemporary forest management. Moreover, emerging forces such as climate change now threaten to further alter the ecological dynamics of oak forests in unpredictable ways.
 
* Comprehensive text which examines the many problems associated with sustaining oak forests in a changing world
* Emphasizes a view of oak forests as responsive ecosystems
* Essential reading for forest ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists and wildlife managers.

Part 1: Ecology
1: Oak-Dominated Ecosystems
2: Regeneration Ecology I: Flowering, Fruiting and Reproduction Characteristics
3: Regeneration Ecology II: Population Dynamics

Part 2: Site Productivity, Stand Development, Fire Effects
4: Site Productivity
5: Development of Natural Stands
6: Self-thinning and Stand Density
7: Fire and Oak Forests

Part 3: Silvicultural Methods, Special Applications, Growth and Yield
8: Even-aged Silvicultural Methods
9: Uneven-aged Silvicultural Methods
10: Artificial Regeneration
11: Silvicultural Methods for Woodlands and Savannahs
12: Silvicultural Methods for Special Applications
13: Managing Oak Forests in a Changing Climate
14: Growth and Yield

Paul S. Johnson

Paul S. Johnson was Principal Silviculturist with the US Forest Service.

Stephen R. Shifley

Stephen R. Shifley teaches at the University of Missouri.

Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers is Associate Dean and Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Daniel C. Dey

Daniel C. Dey is with the U.S. Forest Service.

John M. Kabrick

John M. Kabrick is with the U.S. Forest Service.

oak
silviculture
Forestry