Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests USA /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greenberg, Cathryn H. (Editor), Collins, Beverly S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 32
• Subjects: Environment.; Natural disasters.; Environmental geography.; Environmental management.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Nature conservation.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental Management.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Geography.

This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 for...