As opposed to the suite of process-based models favored by ecologists, forest managers traditionally use empirical models for predicting forest growth and yield.
Designed for advanced students of forest science, ecology, and environmental studies, it is also an essential reference for forest ecologists, foresters, and land managers.
Initially driven by concern for endangered species the Indiana bat, for example—forest ecologists, timber managers, government agencies, and conservation organizations have been altering management plans and silvicultural practices to better accommodate bat species.
Bat ecologists, bat conservationists, forest ecologists, and forest managers will find in this book an indispensable synthesis of the topics that concern them.
Many ecologists and forest managers use fire as a management tool following strict and predetermined fire management regimes as dictated by forest management objectives.
She is a professional forester and a forest ecologist from Helsinki, Finland, who recently earned her Ph.D from Hebrew University of Jerusalem by studying the effect of drought on trees in Israel.
Forest ecologist Robin Chazdon is helping show that regenerating tropical forests aren't wastelands.
Forest ecologist Adrien Finzi of Boston University, who conducts a similar experiment in a pine forest in North Carolina, calls the results "really interesting," but cautions that they may not hold true in other forests.
Forest ecologist Grizelle Gonzalez of the U.S. Forest Service shows tree damage and soil erosion at Luquillo Experimental Forest, where the new study was done.
Mark Ashton, a forest ecologist at Yale University, agrees.
