Hemlock : a forest giant on the edge /
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Yale University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New Haven ; London : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxviii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780300179385 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0300179383 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | QK494 |
CLC: | S791.17 |
Call Number: | S791.17/H488 |
Contents: | Hemlock's future in the context of its past -- An iconic species -- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. I. the Pisgah forest -- Prehistory to present -- Tree-falls and tanbark -- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. II. Bob Marshall's plot -- Hemlock as a foundation species -- A range-wide hemlock decline -- Invasion of an exotic pest -- Cut or girdle -- Modeling the dynamics of a forest giant -- Reprise : eastern hemlock as a foundation species -- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. III. the Earl Stephens plot. When doing nothing is a viable alternative : insights into conservation and management -- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. IV. Three views from John Sanderson's woodlot -- Lament.. |