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The Process and the Response
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By
Edward Johnson, University of Calgary, Canada
Kiyoko Miyanishi, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Description
The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods, ice storms, etc.) indicates the prevalence of natural disasters in
most, if not all, ecosystems. In order for scientists to study, understand, and ultimately predict how these disturbances affect ecosystems,
it is necessary for them to know more about the physical processes involved in these disturbances and to learn how to couple these processes
to the ecological systems. Essential for all ecologists, forest researchers, and conservation biologists, this book includes chapters
on the disturbance processes, how the disturbance causes necrosis or death to individuals, and their effects on population or community
processes. In this book, physical scientists who study disturbances provide an introduction to the physical disturbance processes, while
ecologists relate this information to the way the vegetation responds to the disturbances. This reference is also key for all researchers
hydrology, geomorphology, and environmental management.
Audience
Professionals, researchers and students interested in vegetation dynamics and plant community ecology. Likely those in biology, botany, and ecology departments.
Contents
Introduction
Disturbance and Succession
Wind Processes
The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies;
Microbursts and macrobursts: windstorms and blowdowns; Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem
breakage and canopy gap formation.
Gravity Processes
Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests;
The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees
Geomorphic Processes
Disturbance processes
and dynamics in coastal dunes; Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes; Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history
traits of riparian tree species
Hydrologic Processes
Water level changes in ponds and lakes: the hydrological processes;
Vegetation dynamics due to fluctuating water levels in prairie wetlands
Combustion Processes
Modeling heating effects;
Fire effects on grass populations; Wildfire as a distributed tree population process
Biotic Processes
Insect defoliators
as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems; Modelling disturbance and recovery of lodgepole forest due to mountain pine beetle
outbreaks on landscape scales; Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America; Impact of
beaver foraging on structure of boreal forests; Beaver, willow shrubs and floods
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 720 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088778-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-088778-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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