With an emphasis on ecology as the key word in landscape ecology and landscape as the
context, we discuss the importance of ecological theory as the basis for the study of forest …

Forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services from which people benefit, and upon
which all life depends. However, any rational decision related to the maintenance and …

With a growing population, the demands placed on the World's forest resources are likely to
continue to expand. This presents forest owners and managers with many challenges …

Descriptive (statistical) models of forest growth cannot cope with changing environmental
and management conditions. Since explanatory models attempt to capture the essential eco …

The structure of a forest dictates its function, vulnerability to mortality, and ecosystem
services it provides. Many aspects of the environment and management determine forest …

The chapter first describes common models for monospecific stands and then the
environmental conditions, processes, and structures that need to be included in forest …

Forests play an important role in the mitigation of climate change, and store substantial
amounts of carbon (C). The living biomass contains 363 Pg C and the soils an additional …

Forest landscape ecology examines broad-scale patterns and processes and their
interactions in forested systems and informs the management of these ecosystems. Beyond …

With an increasing fraction of the world's forests being intensively managed for meeting
humanity's need for wood, fiber and ecosystem services, quantitative understanding of the …

Forests are very important for the world's population and large and play critical role in the
Earth's life support system, including global carbon and hydrological cycles. This publication …