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The Boreal Ecosystem
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The Boreal Ecosystem presents an overview of the state of knowledge on the boreal forest region of North America, with extensive reference to the boreal regions of Europe and Asia. Initial sections of this book deal with aspects of the floristic composition and evolutionary history of the boreal vegetation. These introduce subsequent discussions on the processes at work in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere—in short, with the boreal forest as an ecosystem, the sum total of the influences of many closely interlaced biotic and physical factors. These include not only plant species that make up the visible vegetation but also nutrients, soil, temperature, rainfall, progression of the seasons, soil microflora, arthropods, insects, and larger animals such as marten, otter, beaver, moose, caribou, bear, and wolf, and man. All are closely linked strands in the web of life, a web apart from, yet dependent on and influencing, the raw physical environment. This book should serve as an introduction and reference source to its audience: undergraduate and graduate students in the biological and ecological disciplines, research workers in these fields as well as in related areas such as soil science, agronomy, genetics, and climatology; in short, everyone with an interest in boreal ecology.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- The Boreal Ecosystem
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Nomenclature
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Boreal Ecology and Ecosystems Analysis
- Chapter 2. History of the Boreal Vegetation
- Chapter 3. Climate of the Boreal Forest
- Chapter 4. The Boreal Soils Subsystem
- Chapter 5. Boreal Communities and Ecosystems: The Broad View
- Chapter 6. Relationships of Canadian Boreal Plant Communities
- Chapter 7. Boreal Communities and Ecosystems: Local Variation
- Chapter 8. Nutrient Cycling and Productivity
- Chapter 9. The Trophic Pyramid: Animal Populations
- Chapter 10. Boreal Ecology and the Forest Economy
- Chapter 11. Epilogue
- Appendix I: Analysis of Boreal Soils
- Appendix II: Broad Geographical Species Relationships
- Appendix III: Community Composition
- Appendix IV: Frequency of Occurrence of Lichens
- Appendix V: Species Frequently in Black Spruce Communities
- Appendix VI: Species in Boreal Forest Literature
- Appendix VII: Special Definitions
- Subject Index