Individual-based Methods in Forest Ecology and Management

• Main Authors: Pommerening, Arne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Grabarnik, Pavel (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Forestry management.; Biometrics (Biology).; Statistics .; Renewable energy resources.; Forestry Management.; Biometrics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Renewable and Green Energy.

Model-driven individual-based forest ecology has emerged in the 1990s and has given rise to a wealth of publications. At the same time, individual-based methods in forest management have been refined in a number of different countries and steadily grow in importance. For the first time this book int...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Dan Binkley
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theories and concepts in individual-based forest ecology
• 3. Theories and concepts in individual-based forest management
• 4. Spatial methods of tree interaction analysis
• 5. Spatial and individual-based modelling
• 6. Principles of relative growth analysis
• 7. Human disturbances and tree selection behavior
• A. Qualitative forest description
• B. Survey protocol for the establishment of permanent forest research plots
• C. Brief Introduction to the R language
• References
• Index. .