Contributors .................................................... v
Preface ........................................................ ix
Section I Introduction
1 The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: An Overview ..................... 3
Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, and Deborah L. Miller
2 History and Future of the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem ............ 9
Cecil Frost
Box 2.1: The Naval Stores Industry .......................... 43
Alan W. Hodges
Section II Ecology
3 Ecological Classification of Longleaf Pine Woodlands ........ 51
Robert K. Peet
4 Longleaf Pine Regeneration Ecology and Methods .............. 95
Dale G. Brockway, Kenneth W. Outcalt, and William D. Boyer
5 Plant Competition, Facilitation, and Other Overstory-
Understory Interactions in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems ........ 135
Timothy B. Harrington
6 Vertebrate Faunal Diversity of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems .... 157
D. Bruce Means
Section III Silviculture
7 Uneven-Aged Silviculture of Longleaf Pine .................. 217
James M. Guldin
Box 7.1: The Stoddard-Neel Approach ........................ 242
Steven B. Jack, W. Leon Neel, and Robert J. Mitchell
Box 7.2: The Stoddard-Neel System—Case Studies ............. 246
W. Keith Moser
8 Longleaf Pine Growth and Yield ............................. 251
John S. Kush, J.C.G. Goelz, Richard A. Williams, Douglas
R. Carter, and Peter E. Linehan
Section IV Restoration
9 Restoring the Overstory of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems ........ 271
Rhett Johnson and Dean Gjerstad
10 Restoring the Ground Layer of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems ..... 297
Joan L. Walker and Andrea M. Silletti
Box 10.1: Prescribed Burning for Understory Restoration .... 326
Kenneth W. Outcalt
Box 10.2: Restoring the Savanna to the Savannah River
Site ....................................................... 330
Don Imm and John Blake
11 Reintroduction of Fauna to Longleaf Pine Ecosystems:
Opportunities and Challenges ............................... 335
Ralph Costa and Roy S. DeLotelle
12 Spatial Ecology and Restoration of the Longleaf Pine
Evosystem .................................................. 377
Thomas S. Hoctor, Reed F. Noss, Larry D. Harris, and
K.A. Whitney
13 Longleaf Pine Restoration: Economics and Policy ............ 403
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati, G. Andrew Stainback, and
Jagannadha R. Matta
14 Role of Public-Private Partnership in Restoration: A Case
Study ...................................................... 413
Vernon Compton, J. Bachant Brown, M. Hicks, and
P. Penniman
Index ......................................................... 431
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