Plant disturbance ecology : the process and the response /
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Disturbance and Succession
- Wind Processes
- The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies; Microbursts and macrobursts: windstorms and blowdowns; Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem breakage and canopy gap formation.
- Gravity Processes
- Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests; The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees
- Geomorphic Processes
- Disturbance processes and dynamics in coastal dunes; Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes; Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history traits of riparian tree species
- Hydrologic Processes
- Water level changes in ponds and lakes: the hydrological processes; Vegetation dynamics due to fluctuating water levels in prairie wetlands
- Combustion Processes
- Modeling heating effects; Fire effects on grass populations; Wildfire as a distributed tree population process
- Biotic Processes
- Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems; Modelling disturbance and recovery of lodgepole forest due to mountain pine beetle outbreaks on landscape scales; Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America; Impact of beaver foraging on structure of boreal forests; Beaver, willow shrubs and floods.
- Disturbance and succession / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi
- The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies / John J. Finnigan
- Microbursts and macrobursts : windstorms and blowdowns / Mark R. Hjelmfelt
- Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem breakage, and canopy gap formation / Christopher P. Quine and Barry A. Gardiner
- Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests / Kaz Higuchi and Amir Shabbar
- The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees / David F. Greene, Kathleen F. Jones, and Olga J. Proulx
- Disturbance processes and dynamics in coastal dunes / Patrick A. Hesp and M. Luisa Martínez
- Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes / Kiyoko Miyanishi and Edward A. Johnson
- Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history traits of riparian tree species / Futoshi Nakamura and Satomi Inahara
- Water level changes in ponds and lakes : the hydrological processes / Masaki Hayashi and Garth van der Kamp
- Development of post-disturbance vegetation in prairie wetlands / Arnold G. van der Valk
- Modeling heating effects / Geoffrey N. Mercer and Rodney O. Weber
- Fire effects on grasslands / Paul H. Zedler
- Wildfire and tree population processes / Sheri L. Gutsell and Edward A. Johnson
- Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems / Barry J. Cooke, Vincent G. Nealis, and Jacques Régnière
- Dynamics of mountain pine beetle outbreaks / Justin Heavilin, James Powell, and Jesse A. Logan
- Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America / Hubert Morin, Yves Jardon, and Régean Gagnon
- Impact of beaver (castor canadensis Kuhl) foraging on species composition of boreal forests / Noble T. Donkor.