| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Disturbance and succession / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi -- The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies / John J. Finnigan -- Thunderstorm downbursts : windstorms and blowdowns / Matthew J. Bunkers and Mark R. Hjelmfelt -- Wind disturbance in forests : the process of wind created gaps, tree overturning, and stem breakage / Christopher P. Quine, Barry A. Gardiner and John Moore -- Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests / Amir Shabbar and Kaz Higuchi -- The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees / Charles A. Nock, Kathleen F. Jones and David F. Greene -- 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 Nakamura -- Water level charges 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 fire effects on plants : from organs to ecosystems / Elizabeth J. Kleynhans, Adam L. Atchley and Sean T. Michaletz -- Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems / Barry J. Cooke, Vincent G. Nealis and Jacques Regniere -- Revisiting the relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics over the Holocene in Eastern North American based on novel proxies / Hubert Morin, Rejean Gagnon, Lionel Navarro et al. -- Beaver as agents of plant disturbance / Cherie J. Westbrook |
| Summary |
Lant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and the Response, Second Edition, is fully updated and clearly presents how scientists can use a multitude of approaches in plant disturbance ecology. Chapters on fire and beavers from the previous edition were combined into more extensive and inclusive chapters covering disturbance. There are new chapters on windstorms, droughts, and tree uprooting. All chapters from the first edition have been updated to include the latest research. Edited and written by leading experts in the field, this second edition is an essential resource for scientists interested in understanding plant disturbance and ecological processes. Disturbance ecology is still an active area of research and there have been many advances in new areas. One emerging direction in disturbance studies is the increased coupling of physical and ecological processes, and not just their forcing. Disturbances are increasingly traced back further in space and time to mechanisms that are causing the disturbances themselves (e.g., earth surface processes and mesoscale and larger meteorological processes), and the ecological effects being studied are becoming more physiological |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Plant ecology.
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Ecological disturbances.
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Forest ecology.
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Forest canopy ecology.
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Ecological disturbances
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Forest canopy ecology
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Forest ecology
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Plant ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, E. A. (Edward Arnold)
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Miyanishi, Kiyoko.
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| ISBN |
9780128188149 |
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0128188146 |
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