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050 00 $aSD387.O43$bO538 2009
082 04 $a577.322gerDNB
245 00 $aOld-growth forests :$bfunction, fate, and value /$cChristian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, editors.
260 $aBerlin :$bSpringer,$cc2009.
300 $axxvi, 512 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aEcological studies,$x0070-8356 ;$vv. 207
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aPart I: Introduction -- Old-growth forests: function, fate and value, an overview / Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, and Martin Heimann -- Old-growth forest definitions: a pragmatic view / Christian Wirth, Christian Messier, Yves Bergeron, Dorothea Frank, and Anja Fankhänel -- Old trees and the meaning of 'old' / Fritz Hans Schweingruber and Christian Wirth -- Part II: Aboveground processes -- Ecophysiological characteristics of mature trees and stands: consequences for old-growth forest productivity / Werner L. Kutsch, Christian Wirth, Jens Kattge, Stefanie Nöllert, Matthias Herbst, and Ludger Kappen -- The imprint of species turnover on old-growth forest carbon balances: insights from a trait-based model of forest dynamics / Christian Wirth and Jeremy W. Lichstein -- Functional relationships between old-growth forest canopies, understorey light and vegetation dynamics / Christian Messier, Juan Posada, Isabelle Aubin, and Marilou Beaudet -- Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of old-growth forests: processes and pattern / Alexander Knohl, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, and Christian Wirth -- Woody detritus mass and its contribution to carbon dynamics of old-growth forests: the temporal context / Mark E. Harmon -- Part III, Belowground processes -- Aboveground and belowground consequences of long-term forest retrogression in the timeframe of millennia and beyond / David A. Wardle -- Rooting patterns of old-growth forests: is aboveground structural and functional diversity mirrored belowground? Jürgen Bauhus -- Soil carbon accumulation in old-growth forests / Gerd Gleixner, Cindy Tefs, Albrecht Jordan, Matthias Hammer, Christian Wirth, Angela Nueske, Alexander Telz, Uwe E. Schmidt and Stephan Glatzel -- Is there a theoretical limit to soil carbon storage in old-growth forests? A model analysis with contrasting approaches / Markus Reichstein, Göran I. Ågren, and Sebastién Fontaine -- Part IV: Biomes -- Old-growth forests in the Canadian boreal: the exception rather than the rule? / Yves Bergeron and Karen A. Harper -- Biomass chronosequences of United States forests: implications for carbon storage and forest management / Jeremy W. Lichstein, Christian Wirth, Henry S. Horn, and Stephen W. Pacala -- Temperate and boreal old-growth forests: how do their growth dynamics and biodiversity differ from young stands and managed forests? / Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Dominik Hessenmoeller, Alexander Knohl, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Annett Boerner, and John Grace -- Old-growth temperate rainforests of South America: conservation, plant-animal interactions, and baseline biogeochemical processes / Juan J. Armesto, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez, Martín R. Carmona, Juan L. Celis-Diez, Iván A. Díaz, Aurora Gaxiola, Alvaro G. Gutiérrez, Mariela C. Núñez-Avila, Cecilia A. Pérez, and Ricardo Rozzi -- Tropical rain forests as old-growth forests / John Grace and Patrick Meir -- Part V: Human dimensions -- Detecting intact forests from space: hot spots of loss, deforestation and the UNFCCC / Frédéric Achard, Hugh Eva, Danilo Mollicone, Peter Popatov, Hans-Jürgen Stibig, Svetlana Turubanova, and Alexey Yaroshenko -- Impacts of land use on habitat functions of old-growth forests and their biodiversity / Dorothea Frank, Manfred Finckh, and Christian Wirth -- Old-growth forests in the context of international environmental agreements / Annette Freibauer -- Part VI: Synthesis -- Old-growth forests: function, fate and value, a synthesis / Christian Wirth.
650 0 $aOld growth forests.
650 0 $aOld growth forest ecology.
650 4 $aUrwald$xForstökologie$vAufsatzsammlung.
650 07 $aUrwald.$2swd
650 07 $aForstökologie.$2swd
700 1 $aWirth, Christian.
700 1 $aGleixner, Gerd.
700 1 $aHeimann, Martin,$d1949-
830 0 $aEcological studies ;$vv. 207.