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Beers, Thomas W.

Forest Mensuration

Beers, Thomas W. - Forest Mensuration, ebook

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Forest mensuration – the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products – holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As demands on the world’s forests have grown, scientists and professionals are increasingly called on to quantify forest composition, structure, and the goods and services forests provide. Grounded in geometry, sampling theory, and ecology as well as practical field experience, forest mensuration offers opportunities for creative problem solving and critical thinking.

This fifth edition of the classic volume, Forest Mensuration, includes coverage of traditional and emerging topics, with attention to SI and Imperial units throughout. The book has been reorganised from the fourth edition to better integrate non-timber and ecological aspects of forest mensuration at the tree, stand, forest, and landscape scales throughout. The new edition includes new chapters that specifically address the integration of remotely sensed data in the forest inventory process, and inventory methods for dead and downed wood. One unifying theme, not only for traditional forestry but for the non-timber inventory and for remote sensing, is the use of covariates to make sampling more efficient and spatially explicit. This is introduced in the introductory chapter on statistics and the chapter on sampling designs has been restructured to highlight this approach and lay the foundation for further learning. New examples will be developed throughout the textbook with an emphasis on current issues and international practice.

Students in applied forestry programs will find ample coverage of forest products and timber inventory, while expanded material on biodiversity, biomass and carbon inventory, downed dead wood, and the growing role of remote sensing in forest assessment will be valuable to a broader audience in applied ecology.

Keywords: Forest inventory; Forest measurements; Timber inventory; Sampling; Forest biometrics; Down wood; Variable probability sampling; Continuous forest inventory; Remote sensing; Forest biomass                             , Forestry, Environmental Statistics & Environmetrics, Forestry, Environmental Statistics & Environmetrics

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2014
Language
en
Edition
5
Page amount
632 pages
Category
Natural Sciences
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118902004
Printed ISBN
9781118902035

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