The management of oak forests is essential to the ecosystems of many countries, and current trends in managing forests are based on sustaining desired ecosystems, rather than timber and other commodity outputs. 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 such as creating and sustaining oak savannas, and increasing and measuring acorn production. With new information on carbon sequestration, biofuel production, impacts of climate change, and sudden oak death - a serious and newly discovered pathogen - the book will be essential reading for ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists, wildlife managers and students in these disciplines.
- ISBN10 1845934741
- ISBN13 9781845934743
- Publish Date 21 September 2009 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint CABI Publishing
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 600
- Language English