Biology and Simulation for Forest Growth A Study of Scots Pine and Environmental Change |
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| Author:
| Ludlow, A.
Grace, J.
Mohren, G.
Hari, P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85198-962-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
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Forest growth and development is the result of a complex interaction between tree physiology, stand structure, soil conditions, and the abiotic atmospheric environment. In order to study and quantify these interactions and the effects that changes in environmental conditions may have on the structure and function of forest ecosystems, process-based simulation models have been developed in recent years. Aimed at advanced students of forestry, forest ecologists, and forest...
More DescriptionForest growth and development is the result of a complex interaction between tree physiology, stand structure, soil conditions, and the abiotic atmospheric environment. In order to study and quantify these interactions and the effects that changes in environmental conditions may have on the structure and function of forest ecosystems, process-based simulation models have been developed in recent years.
Aimed at advanced students of forestry, forest ecologists, and forest managers, this book contains an account of the recent developments in modelling the growth of forests, including sections on the functional basis and modelling of growth, models describing growth and development of the Scots pine, Comparative Sensitivity Analysis, and simulation of Scots pine performance in Europe. There is also an overview of the general literature concerned with Scots pine, the most commonly used species in the models and case studies used in this book.