Editors:
- Scientifically rigorous research and thinking on eastern old-growth forests in the Anthropocene
- Authoritative analyses of forests from the boreal north to the cypress swamps in the south
- A management-friendly assessment that accounts for the history of human and natural disturbance in the ecology of
- eastern old-growth forests
- A succinct and thoughtfully organized reference for forest owners and managers
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Forest ecologists William Keeton and Andrew Barton bring together a volume that breaks new ground in our understanding of ecological systems and their importance for forest resilience in an age of rapid environmental change. This edited volume covers a broad geographic canvas, from eastern Canada and the Upper Great Lakes states to the deep South. It looks at a wide diversity of ecosystems, including spruce-fir, northern deciduous, southern Appalachian deciduous, southern swamp hardwoods, and longleaf pine. Chapters authored by leading old-growth experts examine topics of contemporary forest ecology including forest structure and dynamics, below-ground soil processes, biological diversity, differences between historical and modern forests, carbon and climate change mitigation, management of old growth, and more.
This thoughtful treatise broadly communicates important new discoveries to scientists, land managers, and students and breathes fresh life into the hope for sensible, effective management of old-growth stands in eastern forests.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA
Andrew M. Barton
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The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
William S. Keeton
About the editors
Andrew M. Barton
Raised in the southern Appalachians of western North Carolina, Drew Barton is a forest ecologist, biology professor, and science writer. His fieldwork has taken him across the United States and to Costa Rica, and he is the author of many scholarly and popular publications. His current research focuses on the response of forests to changing climate and wildfire in the American Southwest. He is the author of the book The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods, which explores the ecology, deep history, and future of Maine forests. He is the co-editor, with Bill Keeton, of the Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests from Island Press. Drew is the co-founder of several conservation organizations, including Michigan National Forest-Watch, the UMF Sustainable Campus Coalition, and the Mt. Blue-Tumbledown Conservation Alliance. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University, masters from the University of Florida, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Drew is currently Professor of Biology at the University of Maine at Farmington.
William S. Keeton
William (Bill) Keeton grew up tromping through the woods of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In the mid-90s, while working on public lands issues in the Pacific Northwest, he became fascinated by old-growth forests and has worked on them ever since. His research focuses on disturbance ecology, forest carbon dynamics and management, forest-stream interactions, and old-growth silviculture. Research on old-growth ecology takes Bill throughout the U.S. Northeast, the Pacific Northwest, Central and Eastern Europe, Patagonia, and the Central Himalayas. Bill Keeton is a professor of forest ecology and forestry at the University of Vermont (UVM), where he also serves as a Fellow in the Gund Institute for Environment. He directs the UVM Carbon Dynamics Laboratory and previously chaired the undergraduate forestry program. Bill is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Vermont Land Trust and sits on the advisory board for Science for the Carpathians. He is currently chairing IUFRO's (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) Working Group on Old-Growth Forests and Reserves. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers and numerous other publications. He received his bachelor's in natural resources from Cornell University, his masters in conservation biology and policy from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in forest ecology from the University of Washington.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
Editors: Andrew M. Barton, William S. Keeton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-891-6
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Andrew M. Barton and William S. Keeton. 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-891-6Published: 12 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 340
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Tree Biology, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, Sustainability Management, Agriculture