The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks, 3rd Edition

Paul S Johnson · Stephen R Shifley · Robert Rogers · Daniel C Dey · John M Kabrick

Apr 2019 · CABI

About this ebook

The third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks is an updated and expanded edition that explores oak forests as responsive ecosystems. New chapters emphasize the importance of fire in sustaining and managing oak forests, the effects of a changing climate, and advanced artificial regeneration techniques. This new edition expands on silvicultural methods for restoring and sustaining oak woodlands and savannahs, and on management of ecosystem services, including wildlife habitat. It also incorporates new material on evaluating landscape-scale, and cumulative effects of management action compared with inaction. Nine of the fifteen chapters cover updated information on the geographic distribution of US oaks, oak regeneration dynamics, site productivity, stocking and stand development, even- and uneven-aged silvicultural methods, and growth and yield. This edition includes a new section with colour illustrations for improved visualization of complex relationships. This book is intended for forest and wildlife managers, ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists, and students of those fields.

About the author

Paul S. Johnson was Principal Silviculturist with the US Forest Service. Stephen R. Shifley teaches at the University of Missouri. Robert Rogers is Associate Dean and Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Daniel C. Dey is an award-winning scientist and Assistant Director for Research at the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station. His research evaluates silvicultural practices to manage forests that produce the wide array of goods and services. He specializes in solving forest regeneration issues in hardwood-dominated forests in both uplands and bottomlands. He has done extensive work with collaborators on determining historic fire regimes in oak/pine-dominated ecosystems throughout the Eastern U.S. This knowledge is the basis for developing management guidelines that combine prescribed fire with thinning and harvesting to restore native forest communities, including woodlands and savannas. He has authored more than 250 scientific and technical publications dealing with these topics, including work in North America, South America and Europe. John Kabrick is the unit leader of the U.S. Forest Service research group of the Northern Research Station headquartered in Columbia, Missouri. He is the recipient of prestigious national and regional awards for his work. John has academic degrees in both soil science and forestry, and he teaches a graduate-level course on forest soils. His current research includes management of mixed-woods, with particular emphasis on forests that are mixtures of oaks and pines. He also studies carbon dynamics in hardwood and mixed-wood forests with emphasis on understanding the implications for carbon storage and climate change. Additionally, John investigates the effects of prescribed fire and other management practices on the restoration and maintenance of oak savannahs and woodlands.