Forest ecosystems : analysis at multiple scales / 2nd ed.

作者：  Richard H. Waring, Steven W. Running.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Explains methods for integrating the analysis of forests at the individual stand, landscape, regional, continental, and global scales. Introduces a framework and a set of tools that provide a quantitative basis for judging the implications of a wide variety of forest management decisions of the natural resource base. The 1985 edition, a solo effort by Waring, is here revised to emphasize quantitative modeling and extrapolations across large spatial and time scales. The CD-ROM is also new, and contains animated images and computer code for two of the models presented. Suitable as a graduate or undergraduate textbook. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.   Publisher Summary 2 This book provides new methods of analysis by introducing new techniques to explore the changes in climatic cycles, the implications of wide-scale pollution, fire and other ecological disturbances that have a global effect on all life forms. It provides the reader with almost 40 percent new material in an attempt to organize principles and provide examples for expanding the horizon of ecosystem analyses. It also defines terms and explains concepts in a variety of ways by providing models, equations, graphs, and tabular examples. To help facilitate analysis, the book includes a CD-ROM with additional illustrations and Forest BGC software. * Additional coverage of regional and global scaling issues * New chapters on ecosystem modeling, remote sensing and monitoring of atmospheric chemistry added * Includes a CD-ROM with additional illustrations and Forest BGC Software  

Forest ecosystems : analysis at multiple scales / 3rd ed.

作者：  Richard H. Waring, Steven W. Running.

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简介：　　Praise for previous editions: "Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation." --Ron Neilson, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis "A nice synthesis and textbookfor forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well-balanced. The book will be a major contribution." --Michael G. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins "There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used." --Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis "The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely." --Hank Margolis, NASA Biospheric Sciences Branch 　　 　　Praise for previous editions: 　　"Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation." 　　--Ron Neilson, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis 　　 　　"A nice synthesis and textbookfor forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well-balanced. The book will be a major contribution." 　　--Michael G. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins 　　 　　"There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used." 　　--Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis 　　 　　"The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely." 　　 --Hank Margolis, NASA Biospheric Sciences Branch 　　 　　 　　 Praise for previous editions: 　　"Represents a tour de force of modeling, synthesis and integration. I doubt there is anyone else who would be able to pull all this together in a credible way. The authors have succeeded admirably in capturing the essence of landscape processes, their description and simulation." 　　--Ron Neilson, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis 　　 　　"A nice synthesis and textbookfor forest ecosystems. The depth and breadth of their synthesis is admirable, and the work is well-balanced. The book will be a major contribution." 　　--Michael G. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins 　　 　　"There is a huge wealth of exciting information in this book. I loved the focus on models. This will be a great book and it will be widely used." 　　--Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis 　　 　　"The idea of putting this ecosystem textbook into a modeling framework is a very significant improvement over the 1985 book. Putting scaling as the over-arching theme makes this book most timely." 　　--Hank Margolis, NASA Biospheric Sciences Branch