Maintaining forest biodiversity by combining protection, management and restoration of
forest and woodland landscapes is a central component of sustainable development …

This paper presents the evolution of ecological considerations in forestry and its
consequences for future forest management practices. Forest management has a long …

Loss of biological diversity has been noted as an important global issue since the
Convention of Biological Diversity in 1992. Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the …

Forest growth is important both economically (yielding billions of dollars of annual revenues)
and ecologically (with respect to ecosystem health and global carbon budgets). The growth …

To assess the impacts of climate change on vegetation from stand to global scales, models
of forest dynamics that include tree demography are needed. Such models are now …

Today, we are confronted by new questions underlying natural resource disputes and forest
management throughout the world. How will our future forest landscapes look? What …

Transformation requires, in part, the setting of goals for the stand structure that should be
ultimately achieved. This structure can be described by the number of trees per unit area of …

Forest Ecosystem models are diagnostic tools to assess and understand ecosystem
processes. Conflicting interests such as simplicity, observability and biological realism must …

The first edition of this book was published in 1985 under a slightly different title (Forest
ecosystems: concepts and management) and with a different co-author (Waring & …

Most of the chapters in this book were originally presented at the international
symposium'Measuring and monitoring forest biological diversity: the international network of …