Sustaining Young Forest Communities Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA / edited by Cathryn Greenberg, Beverly Collins, Frank Thompson III.

There is a rising concern among natural resource scientists and managers about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region.  Open sites with grass, herbaceous, shrub, or incomplete young forest cover are disa...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Greenberg, Cathryn (Editor), Collins, Beverly (Editor), Thompson III, Frank (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Managing Forest Ecosystems, 21
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: What are Early Successional Habitats, Why are they Important, and How Can they be Sustained?
  • 2. Subregional Variation in Upland Hardwood Forest Composition and Disturbance Regimes of the Central Hardwood Region
  • 3. Natural Disturbances and Early Successional Habitats
  •  4. Fire in Eastern Hardwood Forests through 14,000 Years
  • 5. Structure and Species Composition of Upland Hardwood Communities After Regeneration Treatments Across Environmental Gradients
  • 6. Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Amount of Young Forests and Implications for Biodiversity
  • 7. Herbaceous Response to Type and Severity of Disturbance
  • 8. The Role of Young, Recently Disturbed Upland Hardwood Forest as High Quality Food Patches
  • 9. Population Trends for Eastern Scrub-Shrub Birds Related to Availability of Small-diameter Upland Hardwood Forests
  • 10. Bats and Gaps: The Role of Early Successional Patches in the Roosting and Foraging Ecology of Bats
  • 11. Reptile and Amphibian Response to Hardwood Forest Management and Early Successional Habitats
  • 12. Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife in Novel Places
  • 13. Conservation of Early Successional Habitats in the Applachian Mountains: A Manager’s Perspective
  • 14. Early Successional Forest Habitats and Water Resources
  • 15. Carbon Dynamics Following the Creation of Early Successional Habitats in Forests of the Central Hardwood Region
  • 16. Forecasting Forest Type and Age Classes in the Appalachian-Cumberland Subregion of the Central Hardwood Region.