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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
Dothistroma pini changed New Zealand commercial forestry
dramatically. Tree breeding became concentrated on a very few
species and development of selection methods and breeding
strategies changed in response to the new challenges. Tree-Breeding
and Genetics in New Zealand provides a critical historical account
of the work on provenance research and tree breeding, often with
the wisdom of hindsight, and it tracks the development of breeding
strategy, especially for P. radiata, Douglas-fir and the most
important eucalypt species, E. regnans, E. fastigata and E. nitens.
The book is a compendium of abstracts and summaries of all
publications and reports on tree improvement in New Zealand since
the early 1950s, with added critical comment by the author on much
of the work. It is intended for other tree breeders
internationally, for interested NZ foresters and for graduate
students studying genetics and tree breeding.
This book provides researchers and advanced students associated
with plant and pharmaceutical sciences with comprehensive
information on medicinal trees, including their identification,
morphological characteristics, traditional and economic uses, along
with the latest research on their medicinal compounds. The text
covers the ecological distribution of over 150 trees, which are
characterized mainly on the basis of their unique properties and
phytochemicals of medicinal importance (i.e., anti-allergic,
anti-diabetic, anti-carcinogenic, anti-microbial, and possible
anti-HIV compounds). Due to the incredibly large diversity of
medicinal trees, it is not possible to cover all within one
publication, so trees with unique medicinal properties that are
relatively more common in many countries are discussed here in
order to make it most informative for a global audience. With over
100 illustrations taken at different stages of plant development,
this reference work serves as a tool for tree identification and
provides morphological explanations. It includes the latest
botanical research, including biochemical advancements in
phytochemistry techniques such as chromatographic and spectrometric
techniques. In addition, the end of each chapter presents the most
up-to-date references for further sources of exploration.
With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and
advanced students informed of the latest developments and results
in all areas of the plant sciences. This latest volume includes
reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics,
forests, and ecosystems.
The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations. Theoretical
Foundations and Applications provides a synthesis of current
knowledge about industrial forestry management planning processes.
It covers components of the forest supply chain ranging from
modelling techniques to management planning approaches and
information and communication technology support. It may provide
effective support to education, research and outreach activities
that focus on forest industrial plantations management. It may
contribute further to support forest managers when developing
industrial plantations management plans. The book includes the
discussion of applications in 26 Management Planning in Actions
boxes. These applications highlight the linkage between theory and
practice and the contribution of models, methods and management
planning approaches to the efficiency and the effectiveness of
industrial plantations management planning.
A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld
canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep
downhill. The flames are well behaved, almost hesitant. This is a
backing fire, unlikely to attract media attention unless it
escapes, like the disastrous Los Alamos Cerro Grande fire did in
2000. This book explores a century of controversy over prescribed
burning--using fire as a tool--and fire suppression. For more than
100 years, America waged an all-out war against wildland fire.
Decades of fire suppression caused fuels to build up at alarming
levels in our forests, culminating in the increasingly severe,
uncontrollable fires of the late 20th century--the fires in
Yellowstone, the Oakland Hills, and Los Alamos and the fires in
summers of 2000 (the second worst fire season in the nation's
history) and 2001.
Looking at these and earlier fires, Carle uses the voices of
those who were involved, of those who were early advocates, and of
today's proponents to examine the role of controlled burning. Early
in the century, Harold Biswell, a pioneer in prescribed burning,
dared to commit the heresy of questioning the dogma of fire
suppression, despite professional controversy and opprobrium, he
and a few other pioneers led the way. Their roles play an integral
part in the story told here. In Biswell's words, fire is a natural
part of the environment, about as important as rain and sunshine...
. We must work more in harmony with nature, not so much against it.
Can humanity, this book asks, learn to become a fire-adapted
species?
This contributed volume provides 11 illustrative case studies of
technological transformation in the global pulp and paper industry
from the inception of mechanical papermaking in early nineteenth
century Europe until its recent developments in today's business
environment with rapidly changing market dynamics and consumer
behaviour. It deals with the relationships between technology
transfer, technology leadership, raw material dependence, and
product variety on a global scale. The study itemises the main
drivers in technology transfer that affected this process,
including the availability of technology, knowledge, investments
and raw materials on the one hand, and demand characteristics on
the other hand, within regional, national and transnational
organisational frameworks. The volume is intended as a basic
introduction to the history of papermaking technology, and it is
aimed at students and teachers as course material and as a handbook
for professionals working in either industry, research centres or
universities. It caters to graduate audiences in forestry,
business, technical sciences, and history.
Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring
science to address ecological questions and resolve problems
related to global environmental change. In this fast-growing field,
tree rings are used to investigate forest development and
succession, disturbance regimes, ecotone and treeline dynamics and
forest decline. This book of global scope highlights
state-of-the-science dendroecological contributions to
paradigm-shifts in our understanding of ecophysiology, stand
dynamics, disturbance interactions, forest decline and ecosystem
resilience to global environmental change and is fundamental to
better managing our forested ecosystems for the full range of
ecosystem goods and services that they provide.
A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled
burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered
information to provide a guide to improved conservation management
practice. The great variety of responses by insect species and
assemblages demonstrates the often subtle balance between fire
being a severe threat and a vital management component. Examples
from many parts of the world and from diverse biotopes and
production systems display the increasingly detailed appreciation
of fire impacts on insects in terrestrial and freshwater
environments and the ways in which prescribed burning may be
tailored to reduce harmful ecological impacts and incorporated into
protocols for threatened species and wider insect conservation
benefits.
Forests comprise the greatest storage of carbon on land, provide
fuel for millions, are the habitat for most terrestrial
biodiversity, and are critical to the economies of many countries.
Yet changes in the extent and dynamics of forests are inherently
difficult to detect and quantify. Remote sensing technologies may
facilitate the measurement of some key forest properties which,
when combined with other information contained in various computer
models, may allow for the quantification of critical forest
functions. This book explores how remote sensing and computer
modeling can be combined to estimate changes in the carbon storage,
or productivity, of forests - from the level of the leaf to the
level of the globe. Land managers, researchers, policy makers and
students will all find stimulating discussions among an
international set of experts at the cutting edge of the interface
between science, technology and management.
This book investigates soil ecology and biodiversity for its
ability to maintain a balance of beneficial organisms to support
plant growth. This subject is discussed by a group of international
authors in natural, agricultural and urban systems. The importance
of biodiversity per se and, specifically, the feedbacks between the
plant and soil biota in mediating soil function are emphasized.
Examples are selected from allelopathy and invasive plant species
along with the, hitherto overlooked, role of viruses in soil. The
book is intended to provide a framework for a holistic
understanding of the essential role of soil organisms in promoting
plant growth.
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