Forest Landscape Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Knowledge Transfer in Forest Landscape Ecology: A Primer

   • Ajith H. Perera, Lisa J. Buse, Thomas R. Crow

   Pages 1-18

3. Transfer and Extension of Forest Landscape Ecology: A Matter of Models and Scale

   • Ajith H. Perera, Anthony W. King

   Pages 19-41

4. A Collaborative, Iterative Approach to Transferring Modeling Technology to Land Managers

   • Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Sturtevant, Andrew Fall

   Pages 43-64

5. Development and Transfer of Spatial Tools Based on Landscape Ecological Principles: Supporting Public Participation in Forest Restoration Planning in the Southwestern United States

   • Haydee M. Hampton, Ethan N. Aumack, John W. Prather, Brett G. Dickson, Yaguang Xu, Thomas D. Sisk

   Pages 65-95

6. Transferring Landscape Ecological Knowledge in a Multipartner Landscape: The Border Lakes Region of Minnesota and Ontario

   • David E. Lytle, Meredith W. Cornett, Mary S. Harkness

   Pages 97-128

7. Applications of Forest Landscape Ecology and the Role of Knowledge Transfer in a Public Land Management Agency

   • Ajith H. Perera, Lisa J. Buse

   Pages 129-155

8. Moving to the Big Picture: Applying Knowledge from Landscape Ecology to Managing U.S. National Forests

   • Thomas R. Crow

   Pages 157-180

9. Fundamentals of Knowledge Transfer and Extension

   • A. Scott Reed, Viviane Simon-Brown

   Pages 181-204

10. Synthesis: What Are the Lessons for Landscape Ecologists?

    • Ajith H. Perera, Lisa J. Buse, Thomas R. Crow

    Pages 205-214

11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-225

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Forested landscapes have provided many important testing grounds for the devel- ment and application of landscape ecological principles and methods in North America. This central role of forests in landscape ecology emerged for several reasons. Forest cover is prominent in many regions of North America, from the temperate deciduous forests of the east to the coniferous forests of the north and west. Changes in forest spatial patterns are readily apparent to the human eye—natural disturbances and timber harvests alter the arrangement of forest age classes across the landscape and this, in turn, influences many species and ecosystem processes; land-use changes have produced profound fluctuations in forest cover over several centuries; increasing re- dential development in rural areas is often concentrated within forests; and public lands include many forested landscapes. Management actions, such as varying the amount, size, and location of harvests, also represent landscape-scale “experiments” that provide valuable opportunities for study. Finally, forest patterns are readily detectable from remote imagery, and are thus amenable to study at broad scales. For these reasons, forests have provided motivation and many opportunities for studying the complex relationships between patterns and processes in many areas. The importance of landscape-level considerations in the management and c- servation of forested landscapes has become increasingly important, and a variety of stakeholders are involved.

• data modeling
• development
• ecological principles
• ecology
• environment
• environmental management
• environmental science
• forest
• forest policy
• forestry
• knowledge transfer
• land management
• landscape ecology
• natural resource management
• Forestry Management

From the reviews:

“This is a nicely produced, well edited collection of papers that provides a rich source of information … . Researchers should really address this issue before they begin their research … . This book might be consigned to being an excellent account of what it declares itself to be – the transfer of knowledge generated by models to practitioners. … book merits the attention of a much broader audience. Anyone involved in landscape issues in either developing countries or in Europe will find much of interest.” (Jeff Sayer, International Forestry Review, Vol. 11 (3), September, 2009)

• Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada

  Ajith H. Perera, Lisa J. Buse

• USDA Forest Service, Arlington, USA

  Thomas R. Crow

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