Function, Fate and Value
E-Book, Englisch, Band 207, 512 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Ecological Studies
ISBN: 978-3-540-92706-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
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Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – an Overview.- Old-Growth Forest Definitions: a Pragmatic View.- Old Trees and the Meaning of ‘Old’.- Aboveground Processes.- Ecophysiological Characteristics of Mature Trees and Stands - Consequences for Old-Growth Forest Productivity.- The Imprint of Species Turnover on Old-Growth Forest Carbon Balances - Insights From a Trait-Based Model of Forest Dynamics.- Functional Relationships Between Old-Growth Forest Canopies, Understorey Light and Vegetation Dynamics.- Biosphere–Atmosphere Exchange of Old-Growth Forests: Processes and Pattern.- Woody Detritus its Contribution to Carbon Dynamics of Old-Growth Forests: the Temporal Context.- Belowground Processes.- Aboveground and Belowground Consequences of Long-Term Forest Retrogression in the Timeframe of Millennia and Beyond.- Rooting Patterns of Old-Growth Forests: is Aboveground Structural and Functional Diversity Mirrored Belowground?.- Soil Carbon Accumulation in Old-Growth Forests.- Is There a Theoretical Limit to Soil Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Forests? A Model Analysis with Contrasting Approaches.- Biomes.- Old-Growth Forests in the Canadian Boreal: the Exception Rather than the Rule?.- Biomass Chronosequences of United States Forests: Implications for Carbon Storage and Forest Management.- Temperate and Boreal Old-Growth Forests: How do Their Growth Dynamics and Biodiversity Differ from Young Stands and Managed Forests?.- Old-Growth Temperate Rainforests of South America: Conservation, Plant–Animal Interactions, and Baseline Biogeochemical Processes.- Tropical Rain Forests as Old-Growth Forests.- Human Dimensions.- Detecting Intact Forests from Space: Hot Spots of Loss, Deforestation and the UNFCCC.- Impacts of Land Use on Habitat Functions of Old-GrowthForests and their Biodiversity.- Old-Growth Forests in the Context of International Environmental Agreements.- Synthesis.- Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – a Synthesis.