Abstract
Southern forests provide innumerable benefits. Forest scientists, managers, owners, and users have in common the desire to improve the condition of these forests and the ecosystems they support. A first step is to understand the contributions science has made and continues to make to the care and management of forests. This book represents a celebration of past accomplishments, summarizes the current state of knowledge, and creates a vision for the future of southern forestry research and management. Chapters are organized into seven sections: "Looking Back," "Productivity," "Forest Health," "Water and Soils," "Socioeconomic," "Biodiversity," and "Climate Change." Each section is preceded by a brief introductory chapter. Authors were encouraged to focus on the most important aspects of their topics; citations are included to guide readers to further information.
Titles contained within Southern forest science: past, present, and future
- A history of southern forest science, management, and sustainability issues
- Southern forests: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- Southern forest resource conditions and management practices from 1900-1950: Benefits of research
- Southern forest resource conditions and management practices from 1950-2000: Benefits of research
- The southern forest resource assessment: What we learned
- Productivity
- Silviculture and management strategies applicable to southern hardwoods
- The evolution of pine plantation silviculture in the Southern United States
- Reproduction cutting methods for naturally regenerated pine stands in the south
- The role of genetics and tree improvement in southern forest productivity
- Forest mensuration with remote sensing: A retrospective and a vision for the future
- Healthy forests in the South: Challenges for the 21st century
- Restoration of southern ecosystems
- Advances in the control and management of the southern pine bark beetles
- The impact and control of major southern forest diseases
- Monitoring the sustainability of the Southern forest
- Water and soils
- Influences of management of Southern forests on water quantity and quality
- Policy, uses, and values
- Forest values and attitudes in the South: Past and future research
- Nonindustrial forest landowner research: A synthesis and new directions
- Recreation and nontimber forest products
- Timber market research, private forests, and policy rhetoric
- Biodiversity and Southern forests
- Population viability as a measure of forest sustainability
- Responses of Southeastern amphibians and reptiles to forest management: A review
- Monitoring tree secies diversity over large spatial and temporal scales
- Population growth and the decline of natural Southern yellow pine forests
- Overview of global climate change and carbon sequestration
- Implications of global climate change for Southern forests: Can we separate fact from fiction?
- Carbon Sequestration in loblolly pine plantations: Methods, limitations, and research needs for estimating storage pools
Keywords
biodiversity,
climate change,
forest health,
forest history,
productivity,
socioeconomics,
soil,
water
Citation
Rauscher, H. Michael; Johnsen, Kurt, eds. 2004. Southern forest science: past, present, and future. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-75. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 394 p.