Ontario Fire Regime Model
Author : Chao Li
Publisher : [Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.] : Ministry of Natural Resources
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Chao Li
Publisher : [Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.] : Ministry of Natural Resources
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Ajith H. Perera
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231503083
What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing a range of geographic perspectives from across Canada and the United States, this book looks at the escalating public debate on the viability of natural disturbance emulation for sustaining forest landscapes from the perspective of policymakers, forestry professionals, academics, and conservationists. This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framework for examining the ambiguities inherent in emulating natural forest landscape disturbance. It acknowledges the divergent expectations that practitioners face and offers a balanced view of the promises and challenges associated with applying this emerging forest management paradigm. The first section examines foundational concepts, addressing questions of what emulation involves and what ecological reasoning substantiates it. These include a broad overview, a detailed review of emerging forest management paradigms and their global context, and an examination of the ecological premise for emulating natural disturbance. This section also explores the current understanding of natural disturbance regimes, including the two most prevalent in North America: fire and insects. The second section uses case studies from a wide geographical range to address the characterization of natural disturbances and the development of applied templates for their emulation through forest management. The emphasis on fire regimes in this section reflects the greater focus that has traditionally been placed on understanding and managing fire, compared with other forms of disturbance, and utilizes several viewpoints to address the lessons learned from historical disturbance patterns. Reflecting on current thinking in the field, immediate challenges, and potential directions, the final section moves deeper into the issues of practical applications by exploring the expectations for and feasibility of emulating natural disturbance through forest management.
Author : Yves Bergeron
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 3038423904
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Fire Regimes: Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests" that was published in Forests
Author : Ecological Stratification Working Group (Canada)
Publisher : Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research ; Hull, Quebec : State of the Environment Directorate
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN :
[An] expanded attribute database [that] includes attribute data for the ecoprovince level of generalization.
Author : Ajith H. Perera
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0774842369
The growing popularity of the broad, landscape-scale approach to forest management represents a dramatic shift from the traditional, stand-based focus on timber production. Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape responds to the increasing need of forest policy developers, planners, and managers for an integrated, comprehensive perspective on ecological landscapes. The book examines the "big picture" of ecological patterns and processes through a case study of the vast managed forest region in Ontario. The contributors synthesize current landscape ecological knowledge of this area and look at gaps and future research directions from several points of view: spatial patterns, ecological functions and processes, natural disturbances, and ecological responses to disturbance. They also discuss the integration of landscape ecological knowledge into policies of forest management policies, particularly with respect to Ontario's legislative goals of forest sustainability. Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape is the first book to describe the landscape ecology of a continuously forested landscape in a comprehensive manner. It is written for instructors and students in forest management, wildlife ecology, and landscape ecology, and for forest managers, planners, and policy developers in North America.
Author : David J. Mladenoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521631228
Key researchers present newly emerging approaches to computer simulation models of large, forest landscapes.
Author : Martin Beniston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0306481499
1 2 Michel M. VERSTRAETE and Martin BENISTON 1 Space Applications Institute, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy 2 Department of Geography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland This volume contains the proceedings ofthe workshop entitled “Satellite Remote Sensing and Climate Simulations: Synergies and Limitations” that took place in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, September 20–24, 1999. This international scientific conference aimed at addressing the current and pot- tial role of satellite remote sensing in climate modeling, with a particular focus on land surface processes and atmospheric aerosol characterization. Global and regional circulation models incorporate our knowledge ofthe dynamics ofthe Earth's atmosphere. They are used to predict the evolution of the weather and climate. Mathematically, this system is represented by a set ofpartial differential equations whose solution requires initial and bo- dary conditions. Limitations in the accuracy and geographical distribution of these constraints, and intrinsic mathematical sensitivity to these conditions do not allow the identification of a unique solution (prediction). Additional observations on the climate system are thus used to constrain the forecasts of the mathematical model to remain close to the observed state ofthe system.
Author : Wenbin Cui
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Forest fires are the result of complex interactions of weather and vegetation and are highly probabilistic. Characterizing forest fire regimes, the synoptic properties of spatio-temporal variability of individual fires, is important for many forest and fire management purposes. BFOLDS 1.0 (Boreal Forest Landscape Dynamics Simulator) simulates forest fires and forest succession for large areas over long periods. Resulting fire regime simulations are emergent properties of many stochastic and spatially explicit model processes as well as user assumptions and input data. Here the authors demonstrate the use of BFOLDS in characterizing a forest fire regime, using a large boreal ecoregion as an example and readily available forest cover and spatial weather data as primary input.--Document.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Ecological succession
ISBN :
Author : Ajith H. Perera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319198092
Forest landscape disturbances are a global phenomenon. Simulation models are an important tool in understanding these broad scale processes and exploring their effects on forest ecosystems. This book contains a collection of insights from a group of ecologists who address a variety of processes: physical disturbances such as drought, wind, and fire; biological disturbances such as defoliating insects and bark beetles; anthropogenic influences; interactions among disturbances; effects of climate change on disturbances; and the recovery of forest landscapes from disturbances—all from a simulation modeling perspective. These discussions and examples offer a broad synopsis of the state of this rapidly evolving subject.