Restoration and Reclamation of Boreal Ecosystems (eBook, ePUB)

Attaining Sustainable Development
Redaktion: Vitt, Dale

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Produktbeschreibung

Boreal ecosystems contain one-third of the world's forests and stored carbon, but these regions are under increasing threat from both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Written by leaders from the forefront of private, public and academic sectors, Restoration and Reclamation of Boreal Ecosystems emphasises a broad, conceptual approach to the specific application of empirical research into development planning, restoration and modelling of these ecosystems. The importance of this is highlighted at a time of global climate change, as these ecosystems act as carbon sinks. There is a focus on the reclamation of exploited ecosystems from a holistic standpoint, ranging from environmental and edaphic variables to the restoration of keystone flora. Recent advances in quantification of ecosystem services, such as habitat suitability and carbon storage modelling, are also detailed. The book contains case-studies which address how both historical and novel assemblages can provide ecosystem stability under projected climatic and land-use scenarios.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139579445
• Artikelnr.: 53059945

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Utilizing Natural Regimes as Models for Reclamation and
Restoration: 1. The changing boreal forest: incorporating ecological theory
into restoration planning Dale H. Vitt and Jagtar Bhatti; 2. Disturbance
and the peatland carbon sink in the Oil Sands Administrative Area R. Kelman
Wieder, Melanie A. Vile, Kimberli D. Scott, Dale H. Vitt, Erin Brault,
Michelle Harris and Stephen Mowbray; 3. Regional-scale modeling of
greenhouse gas fluxes Pavel Jurus, Petr Musilek, Yaqiong Li and James
Rodway; 4. Reclamation and restoration of boreal ecosystems: attaining
sustainable development Doug Hiltz, Joyce Gould, Jae Ogilvie, Paul Arp and
Barry White; 5. Fundamental paradigms, foundation species selection, and
early plant responses to peatland initiation on mineral soils Sara
Koropchak, Dale H. Vitt, Rosemary Bloise and R. Kelman Wieder; Part II. The
Challenges of Reclamation in Boreal Ecosystems: 6. Advances in oil sands
tailings management: building the base for oil sands reclamation Randy
Mikula; 7. Rebuilding boreal forest ecosystems after industrial disturbance
Ellen Macdonald, Sylvie Quideau and Simon Landhäusser; 8. Designing
landscapes to support peatland development on soft tailings deposits:
Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s Sandhill Fen Research Watershed initiative Carla
Wytrykush, Dale H. Vitt, Gord McKenna and Rob Vassov; 9. Considerations for
building a fen peatland in post-mined oil sands landscape Christine Daly,
Jonathan Price, Line Rochefort, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Remy Pouliot and
Martha Darling Graf; 10. Plant community recovery on 'minimum disturbance'
petroleum sites compared to burned sites in bogs of northern Alberta
Melissa House, Dale H. Vitt and R. Kelman Wieder; 11. Oil sands reclamation
and the projected development of wildlife habitat attributes Clive Welham,
Juan Blanco, Brad Seely and Caroline Bampfylde; 12. Restoration of
peatlands after peat extraction: impacts, restoration goals, and techniques
Martha Darling Graf, Vicky Bérubé and Line Rochefort; 13. Importance of
microbes in peatland dynamics, restoration, and reclamation Roxane
Andersen; Part III. Carbon in the Boreal Forest: 14. Carbon and nitrogen
stocks in western boreal forest ecosystems Jagtar Bhatti; 15. Projected
patterns of C storage in upland forests reclaimed after oil sands mining
Clive Welham, Brad Seely and Juan Blanco; 16. The business of carbon Mike
Vitt; 17. Effects of peat extraction and restoration on greenhouse gas
exchange from Canadian peatlands Maria Strack and J. M. Waddington; Index.