Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. List of Figures and Tables xi
5. Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. Part I. Concepts
8. Chapter 1. Emulating Natural Disturbance in Forest Management 3
9. Chapter 2. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance 8
10. Chapter 3. The Ecological and Genetic Basis for Emulating Natural Disturbance in Forest Management 29
11. Chapter 4. Characterizing Natural Forest Disturbance Regimes 43
12. Chapter 5. Predicting Fire Regimes at Multiple Scales 55
13. Chapter 6. Predicting Forest Insect Disturbance Regimes for Use in Emulating Natural Disturbance 69
14. Part II. Applications: Understanding Forest Disturbances
15. Chapter 7. Empirical Approaches to Modeling Wildland Fire in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States 85
16. Chapter 8. Simulating Forest Fire Regimes in the Foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains 98
17. Chapter 9. Spatial Simulation of Broad-Scale Fire Regimes as a Tool for Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbance 112
18. Chapter 10. Simulating the Effects of Forest Fire and Timber Harvesting on the Hardwood Species of Central Missouri 123
19. Chapter 11. Using Insect-Caused Patterns of Disturbance in Northern New Brunswick to Inform Forest Management 135
20. Chapter 12. Using Criteria Based on the Natural Fire Regime to Evaluate Forest Management in the Oregon Coast Range of the United States 146
21. Chapter 13. Using a Decision Support System to Estimate Departures of Present Forest Landscape Patterns from Historical Reference Conditions 158
22. Chapter 14. Changes in Tree Species Composition from Pre-European Settlement to Present 176
23. Part III. Applications: Perspectives, Practices, and Policy
24. Chapter 15. A Conservation Perspective on Emulating Natural Disturbance in the Management of Boreal Forests in Ontario 191
25. Chapter 16. Consequences of Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance 200
26. Chapter 17. An Economic Perspective on Emulation Forestry and a Case Study on Woodland Caribou–Wood Production Trade-Offs in Northern Ontario 209
27. Chapter 18. Developing Forest Management Strategies Based on Fire Regimes in Northwestern Quebec 219
28. Chapter 19. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance 230
29. Chapter 20. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance in the Wildland–Urban Interface of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the United States 243
30. Chapter 21. Emulating Natural Forest Disturbance 251
31. Part IV. Conclusion
32. Chapter 22. Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances 265
33. References 275
34. Index 311