Foreword ............................................ ix
David Suzuki
Preface ........................................... xiii
Dominick A. DellaSala
Chapter 1 Just What Are Temperate and Boreal Rainforests? ...... 1
Dominick A. DellaSala, Paul Alaback, Toby
Spribille, Henrik von Wehrden, and Richard
S. Nauman
Chapter 2 Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the Pacific
Coast of North America .............................. 42
Dominick A. DellaSala, Faisal Moola, Paul Alaback,
Paul C. Paquet, John W. Schoen, and Reed F. Noss
Chapter 3 Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of Inland
Northwestern North America .......................... 82
Dominick A. DellaSala, Paul Alaback, Lance
Craighead, Trevor Coward, Paul Paquet, and Toby
Spribille
Chapter 4 Perhumid Boreal and Hemiboreal Forests of Eastern
Canada ............................................. 111
Stephen R. Clayden, Robert P. Cameron, and John
W. McCarthy
Chapter 5 Valdivian Temperate Rainforests of Chile and
Argentina .......................................... 132
David Tecklin, Dominick A. DellaSala, Federico
Luebert, and Patricio Pliscoff
Chapter 6 Temperate and Boreal Rainforest Relicts of Europe .. 154
Dominick A. DellaSala, Paul Alaback, Anton
Drescher, Håkon Holien, Toby Spribille, and
Katrin Ronnenberg
Chapter 7 Temperate Rainforests of Japan ..................... 181
Yukito Nakamura, Dominick A. DellaSala, and Paul
Alaback
Chapter 8 Temperate Rainforests of Australasia ............... 195
James B. Kirkpatrick and Dominick A. Della Sala
Chapter 9 Rainforests at the Margins: Regional Profiles ...... 213
Dominick A. DellaSala
Regional Profile: Colchic and Hyrcanic Temperate
Rainforests of the Western Eurasian Caucasus ....... 214
George Nakhutsrishvili, Nugzar Zazanashvili, and
Ketevan Batsatsashvili
Regional Profile: Humidity-Dependent Forests of
the Russian Far East, Inland Southern Siberia,
and the Eastern Korean Peninsula ................... 222
Pavel V.Krestov, Dina I. Nazimova, Nikolai V.
Stepanov, and Dominick A. DellaSala
Regional Profile: Knysna-Tsitsikamma Temperate
Rainforests of South Africa ........................ 234
Paul E. Hosten and Jeannine M. Rossa
Chapter 10 Crosscutting Issues and Conservation Strategies .... 243
Dominick A. DellaSala, Paul Alaback, Lance
Craighead, Trevor Goward, Holien Håkon, James
Kirkpatrick, Pavel Krestov, Faisal Moola, Yukito
Nakamura, Richard S. Nauman, Reed F Noss, Paul
Paquet, Katrin Ronneberg, Toby Spribille, David
Tecklin, and Henrik von Wehrden
Chapter 11 A Global Strategy for Rainforests in the Era of
Climate Change ..................................... 260
John Fitzgerald, Dominick A. DellaSala, Jeff
McNeely, and Ed Grumbine
Contributors .................................................. 275
Index ......................................................... 283
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