The ecology and silviculture of oaks
By considering oak forests as responsive ecosystems, this updated new edition draws on the authors' extensive experience in order to examine topics essential to understanding the unique characteristics of oaks and oak forests, covering distribution, ecology and population dynamics, and silvicultural practices for multi-resource management.
1 online resource (xiv, 580 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781845934750, 184593475X
864010348
Introduction : conflicting environmental philosophies
Silviculture : a consilient discipline
Oak-dominated ecosystems
Regeneration ecology I : flowering, fruiting and reproduction characteristics
Regeneration ecology II : population dynamics
Site productivity
Development of natural stands
Self-thinning and stand density
Even-aged silvicultural methods
Uneven-aged silvicultural methods
Silvicultural methods for multi-resource management
Growth and yield
Appendix 1 : common and scientific names of species mentioned
Appendix 2 : forest cover types of eastern USA dominated Oaks or Oaks mixed with other species
Appendix 3 : forest cover types of western USA dominated by Oaks or Oaks mixed with other species
Appendix 4 : formulae for converting site index (in feet at a base age of 50) of one species to another in unglaciated regions of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia
Appendix 5 : formulae for converting site indexes (in feet at base age 50) for Oaks and associated species from one species to another in three regions
Appendix 6 : formulae for converting yellow-poplar site index to Oak site indexes in the Virginia-Carolina Piedmont
Appendix 7 : parameter estimate for site index asymptotes (S) and species coefficients (b) for deriving height/dbh site index curves from equation 4.1
Appendix 8 : common conversions