9 Forest Ecosystem Productivity in Ontario

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction to Landscape Ecology and Ontario’s Managed Forest Region
6. Landscape Ecology in Forest Management: An Introduction 3
7. Physical Geography of Ontario 12
8. Forest Vegetation of Ontario: Factors Influencing Landscape Change 30
9. Forest Vertebrates of Ontario: Patterns of Distribution 54
10. Spatial Patterns in the Managed Forest Landscape of Ontario 74
11. Forest Landscape Ecological Processes
12. Influences of Climate on Ontario Forests 103
13. Fire Regimes and their Simulation with Reference to Ontario 115
14. Insect and Disease Disturbance Regimes in Ontario’s Forests 141
15. Forest Ecosystem Productivity in Ontario 163
16. Vegetation Responses to the Managed Forest Landscape of Central and Northern Ontario 178
17. Forest Vertebrate Responses to Landscape-Level Changes in Ontario 198
18. Policy and Planning for Forest Landscape Management
19. Ontario Forests and Forest Policy Before the Era of Sustainable Forestry 237
20. A New Foundation for Ontario Forest Policy for the 21 st Century 276
21. Strategic Planning at the Landscape Level 295
22. Landscape Ecology and Adaptive Management 310
23. Reflections on the Managed Forest Landscape 323
24. Glossary 329
25. List of Contributors 331
26. Index 333