Long-Term Response of a Forest Watershed Ecosystem: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians
Wayne T. Swank and Jackson R. Webster
Abstract
This latest addition to the Long-Term Ecological Research Network series gives an overarching account of the recovery and management of a forest watershed ecosystem. It synthesizes and cross-references important and rare-to-find, long-term data in fourteen chapters that deal with the hydrologic, biogeochemical, and ecological processes of mixed deciduous forests. The data is representative of the entire US, and shows the effects of commercial clearcutting using examples from the Southeastern US and a range of East Coast forests. It includes responses of both forest and stream components of the ... More
This latest addition to the Long-Term Ecological Research Network series gives an overarching account of the recovery and management of a forest watershed ecosystem. It synthesizes and cross-references important and rare-to-find, long-term data in fourteen chapters that deal with the hydrologic, biogeochemical, and ecological processes of mixed deciduous forests. The data is representative of the entire US, and shows the effects of commercial clearcutting using examples from the Southeastern US and a range of East Coast forests. It includes responses of both forest and stream components of the watershed and provides unique insights into the interrelationships between the effects of natural disturbances (floods, droughts, insects, and disease, etc.) versus management disturbances.
Keywords:
forest watershed ecosystem,
hydrologic processes,
biogeochemical processes,
ecological processes,
mixed deciduous forests,
commercial clearcutting,
natural disturbances,
management disturbances
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195370157 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195370157.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Wayne T. Swank, editor
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service
Jackson R. Webster, editor
Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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