Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations |
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Long-Term Ecological Research Network series |
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Long-Term Ecological Research Network series.
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Contents |
Cover; Long-Term Responseof a Forest Watershed Ecosystem; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Programmatic Background, Site Description, Experimental Approach and Treatment, and Natural Disturbances; 2 Successional Forest Dynamics 30 Years Following Clearcutting; 3 Response and Recovery of Water Yield and Timing, Stream Sediment, Abiotic Parameters, and Stream Chemistry Following Logging; 4 Long- and Short-Term Changes in Nutrient Availability Following Commercial Sawlog Harvest via Cable Logging; 5 Soluble Organic Nutrient Fluxes |
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6 Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Stream during a Quarter Century of Forest Succession7 Wood Decomposition Following Clearcutting at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory; 8 Recovery of Decomposition and Soil Microarthropod Communities in a Clearcut Watershed in the Southern Appalachians; 9 Watershed Clearcutting and Canopy Arthropods; 10 Recovery of Particulate Organic Matter Dynamics in a Stream Draining a Logged Watershed A Pressing Situation; 11 Stream Macroinvertebrate Response to Clearcut Logging; 12 Recovery of Central Appalachian Forested Watersheds Comparison of Fernow and Coweeta |
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13 Comparisons with Results from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the Northern Appalachians14 Bridging the Gap between Ecosystem Theory and Forest Watershed Management A Synthesis of 30+ Years of Research on WS 7; Index |
Summary |
Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances. A watershed-scale and long-term perspective of forest ecosystem responses is requisite to understanding and predicting cause and effect relationships. This book synthesizes interdisciplinary studies conducted over thirty years, to evaluate responses of a clear-cut, cable-logged watershed at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the Nantahala Mountain Range of western North Carolina. This research was the result |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects -- Blue Ridge Mountains
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Forest ecology -- Blue Ridge Mountains
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects
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Forest ecology
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United States -- Blue Ridge Mountains
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Swank, Wayne T., editor.
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Webster, Jackson R., editor.
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ISBN |
9780199708406 |
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0199708401 |
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