ECOLOGY: Forest Productivity

Forest Ecology

Fire is a potentially powerful tool for achieving desired conditions of forest ecosystems. From an ecological perspective, the use of fire requires affirmative answers to either of the following questions: (1) Does it increase ecosystem health and sustainability? and (2) Does it preserve or restore unique species or habitats? Health and sustainability can be measured and defined in terms of: (1...

Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Ecology, Behavior and Productivity of Marine Fish

Enhancing Forest Value Productivity through Fiber Quality

will be easier to identify fiber quality research gaps and their linkage to the issue of enhancing forest productivity. Defining Fiber Quality Quality is generally defined as “suitability for a use” (Briggs and Smith 1986). Further precision requires statement of a specific product and the key performance requirements of that product in service. Given these product performance requirements, the...

Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org E of the principal greenhouse gas (GHG), carbon dioxide (CO2), are driven primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, but the Earth’s biosphere also plays a major role in the global carbon (C) budget. Forest biomes are an important component of the global C budget, because of the large quantities stored in live biomass, detritus, and ...