Long-term response of a forest watershed ecosystem : clearcutting in the southern Appalachians / edited by Wayne T. Swank, Jackson R. Webster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swank, Wayne T.

Webster, Jackson R.

Series:

Long-Term Ecological Research Network series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clearcutting--Environmental aspects--Blue Ridge Mountains.

Clearcutting.

Forest ecology--Blue Ridge Mountains.

Forest ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances. A watershed-scale and long-term perspective of forest ecosystem responses is requisite to understanding and predicting cause and effect relationships. This book synthesizes interdisciplinary studies conducted over thirty years, to evaluate responses of a clear-cut, cable-logged watershed at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the Nantahala Mountain Range of western North Carolina. This research was the result

Contents:

Cover; Long-Term Responseof a Forest Watershed Ecosystem; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Programmatic Background, Site Description, Experimental Approach and Treatment, and Natural Disturbances; 2 Successional Forest Dynamics 30 Years Following Clearcutting; 3 Response and Recovery of Water Yield and Timing, Stream Sediment, Abiotic Parameters, and Stream Chemistry Following Logging; 4 Long- and Short-Term Changes in Nutrient Availability Following Commercial Sawlog Harvest via Cable Logging; 5 Soluble Organic Nutrient Fluxes

6 Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Stream during a Quarter Century of Forest Succession7 Wood Decomposition Following Clearcutting at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory; 8 Recovery of Decomposition and Soil Microarthropod Communities in a Clearcut Watershed in the Southern Appalachians; 9 Watershed Clearcutting and Canopy Arthropods; 10 Recovery of Particulate Organic Matter Dynamics in a Stream Draining a Logged Watershed A Pressing Situation; 11 Stream Macroinvertebrate Response to Clearcut Logging; 12 Recovery of Central Appalachian Forested Watersheds Comparison of Fernow and Coweeta

13 Comparisons with Results from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the Northern Appalachians14 Bridging the Gap between Ecosystem Theory and Forest Watershed Management A Synthesis of 30+ Years of Research on WS 7; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026793-3

0-19-970840-1

OCLC:

874162746