Coniferous Forest Ecology, from an International Perspective. 1991. figs. tbs. VIII,182 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Contents: Preface/ N.Nakagoshi, Perspectives on pine forest ecology:Introduction to an international symposium, 1990/ W.-LChen, The pineforests in western China/ Y.-D.Rim, H.-K.Kang and N.Nakagoshi, Communityecology of Pinus densiflora forests in Korea/ S.-W.Lee and K.-H.Park,Biomass, productivity and organic energy production in Pinus densifloraforest ecosystem in Korea/ M.Kamada, N.Nakagoshi and K.Nehira, Pineforest ecology and landscape management: A comparative study in Japanand Korea/ L.-Q.Zhang, Successional trend and population dynamics ofPinus taiwanensis forest in southeastern China/ E.A.Johnson andK.Miyanishi, Fire and population dynamics of lodgepole pine andEngelmann spruce forests in the southern Canadian Rockies/ H.Hytteborn,Q.-H.Liu nd T.Verwijst, Natural disturbance and gap dynamics in aSwedish boreal spruce forest/ Y.Tadaki, Productivity of coniferousforests in Japan/ D.H.Knight, Pine forests: A comparative overview ofecosystem structure and function/ A.Faensen-Thiebes, R.Cornelius,G.Meyerand R.Bornkamm, Ecosystem study in a central European pine forest/W.Kratz, Cycling of nutrients and pollutants during litterdecomposition in pine forests in the Grunewald, Berlin/ A.I.Breymeyer,Comparative analysis of organic matter transformations in coniferousforests in Europe/ Index of keywords.