This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest
information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest
ecosystems. Further understanding is given to techniques to explore the changes in climatic
cycles, the implications of wide-scale pollution, fire and other ecological disturbances that
have a global effect. The inclusion of models, equations, graphs, and tabular examples
provides readers with a full understanding of the methods and techniques. Includes a …

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 &
Schlesinger, WH). Most of the information available on forest ecosystems at that time was
based on mass balance analyses of small stands or watersheds. There were few simulation
models, and those that existed were restricted. New methods and models now provide a
much wider basis for extrapolation in time and space. This major revision of the book …