Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes

• Underlying Concepts and Applicative Approaches.- Ecology and Management of Forest Landscapes.- Cultural Determinants of Spatial Heterogeneity in Forest Landscapes.- Managing Forest Landscapes for Climate Change.- Consequences of Management across Regions and Scales.- The Great Siberian Forest: Challenges and Opportunities of Scale.- Fragmentation of Forest Landscapes in Central Africa: Causes, Consequences and Management.- Human-Induced Alterations in Native Forests of Patagonia, Argentina.- Landscape-Scale Factors Influencing Forest Dynamics in Northern Australia.- Spatial Patterns and Ecology of Shifting Forest Landscapes in Garo Hills, India.- Synthesis.- Landscape-Scale Indicators and Projection Models.- Tools for Understanding Landscapes: Combining Large-Scale Surveys to Characterize Change.- Shape Irregularity as an Indicator of Forest Biodiversity and Guidelines for Metric Selection.- Land Suitability for Short Rotation Coppices Assessed through Fuzzy Membership Functions.- Assessing Human Impacts on Australian Forests through Integration of Remote Sensing Data.- Habitat Quality Assessment and Modelling for Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability.- Synthesis.- Long-Term Sustainable Plans and Management Actions.- The Role of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative in Forest Landscape Changes in Texas, USA.- Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Tropical Forest Landscapes.- Forest Management and Carbon Sink Dynamics: a Study in Boreal and Sub-Alpine Forest Regions.- Emulating Natural Disturbance Regimes: an Emerging Approach for Sustainable Forest Management.- Conserving Forest Biodiversity: Recent Approaches in UK Forest Planning and Management.- Synthesis.- Appendix A.

From the reviews: "The book aims to elucidate the dynamics of forest ecosystems in the broad sense ... . The four-part work provides some of the most salient, pertinent examples of landscape ecological research. Scholars, students, and forest managers seeking a current synthesis within these divisions of landscape ecology may consult one of the parts independently--each part contains several well-referenced chapters--or the book as a whole. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (D. L. Richter, Choice, Vol. 46 (11), 2009) "This highly accessible book provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and theory about the Landscape Ecology state in Forest. ... this book based on the main results of the 2006 IUFRO Landscape Ecology Workshop of Locorotondo (Bari, Italy) is the most recent comprehensive textbook on this subject for students, researchers and professionals from around the world. ... To conclude, this is the most thoughtfull, scientific and case studies ... that I have read on ecology processes and management in Forest Landscapes." (Marc Benoit, Annals of Forest Science, Issue 1, 2010) "I was therefore pleasantly surprised to find in this volume a rich and relatively coherent collection of papers whose authors include many of the world's leaders in the field of landscape ecology. ... the editors span the extremes of the range of approaches to forest landscapes and this is one of the strengths of the book. ... The book is very well edited and produced and will be a valuable reference work for anyone concerned with large scale patterns and processes in forest landscapes." (Jeffrey Sayer, International Forestry Review, Vol. 11 (1), 2009)