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Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Ecological Studies, 208
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Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number
of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter,
production of wood and other resources, and conservation of
biodiversity and habitats; they also have special signi?cance in
social and cultural contexts. Initiated in 1960s, the ?rst
International Biological Program (IBP) focused on ''the biological
basis of productivity and human welfare. '' As the German
contribution to the IBP, ecosystem research has been carried out
since 1966 in the Solling area (Ellenberg H., Ecological Studies 2,
1971), an upland region in Northwest Germany. This study provided
clear evidence that the stability of forest ecosystems was
threatened by the high inputs of at- spheric pollutants. This
promoted many interdisciplinary research programs which were
coordinated by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ulrich and the Forest Ecosystems
Research Center of the University of Go]ttingen. This involved, in
addition to the Solling site, the establishment of two other sites
for long-term monitoring of ecosystem pro- ] cesses. The two
contrasting sites were established in 1980 at Gottinger Wald on
base-rich calcareous soil and in 1989 at Zierenberg on volcanic
soil. These projects were funded initially by the Federal Ministry
of Research and Technology (BMBF) as interdisciplinary projects
under the titles: ''Conditions of Stability of Forest Ecosystems''
(1989-1993), and ''Dynamics of Forest Ecos- tems'' (1993-1998). The
primary goal of these studies was to quantify the ecolo- cal
condition of forests in a changing environment and element ?uxes."
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