Forest Health
An Integrated Perspective

Elevates forest health from a fuzzy concept to an ecologically sound paradigm, providing instructions and exercises for forest sustainability assessments.

John D. Castello (Edited by), Stephen A. Teale (Edited by)

9780521766692, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 May 2011

404 pages, 80 b/w illus. 7 tables
25.4 x 17.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.94 kg

'… a terrific new contribution to forest health science … It is loaded with great information and well referenced … the assembly of authors takes a broad perspective and seeks to educate the reader by providing significant detail to reinforce the concepts in a global perspective.' Ecology

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.

Preface
Part I. Forest Health and Mortality: 1. The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest health S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
2. Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest L. Zhang, B. D. Rubin and P. D. Manion
3. How do we do it, and what does it mean?: forest health case studies J. D. Castello, S. A. Teale and J. A. Cale
Part II. Forest Health and its Ecological Components: 4. Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic factors to a healthy forest S. A. Teale and J. D. Castello
5. Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on forest structure and function D. Parry and S. A. Teale
6. Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic factors, and mycorrhizae R. D. Briggs and T. R. Horton
7. Earth, wind, and fire: abiotic factors and the impacts of global environmental change on forest health J. E. Lundquist, A. E. Camp, M. L. Tyrrell, S. J. Seybold, P. Cannon and D. J. Lodge
Part III. Forest Health and the Human Dimension: 8. Silviculture, forest management, and forest health: an axe does not a forester make C. A. Nowak, R. H. Germain and A. P. Drew
9. Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber harvest: can we have it all? S. P. Campbell, D. A. Patrick and J. P. Gibbs
10. Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health monitoring M. Fierke, D. Nowak and R. Hofstetter
11. What did we learn, and where does it leave us?: concluding thoughts J. D. Castello and S. A. Teale
Appendix A. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 2
Appendix B. Microsoft Excel instructions for Chapter 3
Appendix C. Glossary of terms
Index.

Subject Areas: Plant ecology [PSTS], Plant reproduction & propagation [PSTL], Plant physiology [PSTD], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]