Landscape Features and Processes Influencing Forest Pest Dynamics

Characterisation of Landscape with Forest Fragmentation Dynamics

Land cover (LC) and land use (LU) dynamics induced by human and natural processes play a major role in global as well as regional patterns of landscapes influencing biodiversity, hydrology, ecology and climate. Changes in LC features resulting in forest fragmentations have posed direct threats to biodiversity, endangering the sustainability of ecological goods and services. Habitat fragmentatio...

Assessing the impacts of global warming on forest pest dynamics

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America T evolutionary history of insects predates that of modern forests, and forest ecosystems originated and evolved under substantial insect herbivore pressure (Farrell et al. 1992). In spite – or perhaps because – of their long-standing ecological association, most insects live in a benign, or even beneficial, relationship with their h...

Forest Pest Management

Subsoiling is becoming a standard practice to alleviate detrimental soil compaction following biomass harvesting in eastside pine and mixed conifer forests in California. Compaction of soil following the harvesting can be detrimental to growth of residuals, to establishment of natural regeneration, and may change long term soil productivity. The short and long term effects of this subsoiling pr...

Simulation of boreal forest landscape dynamics: modeling approaches and applications

Finland Academic dissertation To be presented, with the permission of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Helsinki, for public criticism in the Walter auditorium of the EE-building (Agnes Sjöbergin k. 2) on December 10 th 2004 at 12 o'clock noon. Abstract Boreal forests are dynamic, spatially heterogeneous ecosystems, and important reserves of biological diversity and t...

Landscape-scale patterns of forest pest and pathogen damage in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem