Preface ....................................................... vii
List of contributors ........................................... ix
Section I Forest health and mortality .......................... 1
1 The past as key to the future: a new perspective on forest
health ....................................................... 3
S.A. Teale and J.D. Castello
2 Mortality: the essence of a healthy forest .................. 17
L. Zhang, B.D. Rubin, and P.D. Manion
3 How do we do it, and what does it mean? Forest health case
studies ..................................................... 50
J.D. Castello, S.A. Teale, and J.A. Cale
Section II Forest health and its ecological components ........ 79
4 Regulators and terminators: the importance of biotic
factors to a healthy forest ................................. 81
S.A. Teale and J.D. Castello
5 Alien invasions: the effects of introduced species on
forest structure and function .............................. 115
D. Parry and S.A. Teale
6 Out of sight, underground: forest health, edaphic
factors, and mycorrhizae ................................... 163
R.D. Briggs and T.R. Horton
7 Earth, wind, and fire: abiotic factors and the impacts
of global environmental change on forest health ............ 195
J.E. Lundquist, A.E. Camp, M.L. Tyrrell, S.J. Seybold,
P. Cannon, and D.J. Lodge
Section III Forest health and the human dimension ............ 245
8 Timber harvesting, silviculture, and forest management:
an axe does not a forester make ............................ 247
C.A. Nowak, R.H. Germain, and A.P. Drew
9 Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable timber
harvest: can we have it all? ............................... 277
S.P. Campbell, D.A. Patrick, and J.P. Gibbs
10 Seeing the forest for the trees: forest health
monitoring ................................................. 321
M. Fierke, D. Nowak, and R. Hofstetter
11 What did we learn, and where does it leave us? Concluding
thoughts ................................................... 344
J.D. Castello and S.A. Teale
Appendix A .................................................... 356
Microsoft® Excel® instructions for Chapter 2
Appendix В .................................................... 362
Microsoft® Excel® instructions for Chapter 3 Glossary of
terms ......................................................... 372
Index ......................................................... 383
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