Ecological Silviculture. Founddations and Applications. 2021. b/w figs. 14 col. pls. 356 p. 4to. Paper bd.

Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in production agriculture. This book presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models - models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological legacies, and allow time to take its course in shaping stands. These methods, dubbed 'ecological forestry', have been successfully implemented by foresters for decades managing a wide variety of forestlands. Ecological silvicultural strategies protect threatened and rare species, sustain biological diversity, and provide habitat for game and non-game species, all while providing timber in profitable ways.


Table of Contents

Part I: A BACKGROUND ON ECOLOGICAL FORESTRY AND SILVICULTURE
1. Forestry in the Twenty-First Century
2. What Is Ecological Forestry?
3. An Overview of Silviculture

Part II: FOREST DYNAMICS RELEVANT TO ECOLOGICAL SILVICULTURE
4. Natural Disturbances and Biological Legacies
5. Forest Development Patterns and Processes
6. Natural Disturbance Archetypes

Part III: APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL MODELS TO SILVICULTURE
7. Incorporating Continuity into Silviculture: Legacy Retention in Regeneration Harvests
8. Managing for Complexity, Diversity, and Heterogeneity in Established Stands
9. The Context of Silviculture at Landscape Scales

Part IV: ECOLOGICAL SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS FOR MAJOR ARCHETYPES
10. An Introduction to Ecological Silvicultural Systems
11. Silviculture for Archetype 1 Ecosystems: Forests Subject to Infrequent Severe Disturbances
12. Silviculture for Archetype 2 Ecosystems: Forest Characterized by Frequent Low-Severity Fire Disturbance
13. Silviculture for Archetype 3 Ecosystems: Forests with Frequent Gap-Scale Disturbance Regimes
14. Silviculture for Archetype 4 Ecosystems: Forests with Mixed-Severity Disturbances

Part V: ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
15. Ecological Silviculture for Riparian Forests
16. Silviculture in the Face of Climate Uncertainty
17. Summary and Conclusions: Why Ecological Silviculture Matters
Species List
Glossary of Terms