Plant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and the Response (Hardcover)

Introduction
Disturbance and Succession
Wind Processes
The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies; Microbursts and macrobursts: windstorms and blowdowns; Understanding how the interaction of wind and trees results in windthrow, stem breakage and canopy gap formation.
Gravity Processes
Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests; The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees
Geomorphic Processes
Disturbance processes and dynamics in coastal dunes; Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes; Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life history traits of riparian tree species
Hydrologic Processes
Water level changes in ponds and lakes: the hydrological processes; Vegetation dynamics due to fluctuating water levels in prairie wetlands
Combustion Processes
Modeling heating effects; Fire effects on grass populations; Wildfire as a distributed tree population process
Biotic Processes
Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems; Modelling disturbance and recovery of lodgepole forest due to mountain pine beetle outbreaks on landscape scales; Relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics in eastern North America; Impact of beaver foraging on structure of boreal forests; Beaver, willow shrubs and floods