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Informationen zum Autor Aimlee D. Laderman, Lecturer and Research Affiliate at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, is Director of the Swamp Research Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Klappentext A few conifers are found in nature only in narrow, discontinuous bands bordering continental margins. Despite their maritime location, these trees cannot thrive in saline waters and soils. What enables them to grow in challenging habitats? Why don't these species naturalize inland? Whatcharacteristics allow them to succeed only near salt water? A strange combination of qualities is seen: the trees are catastrophe-dependent, stress-tolerant, with broad niche potential, but are poor competitors in "easy" sites. They all possess moisture-conserving features usually associated with arid lands, although they grow in regions of high humidity andfrequent fogs. This volume is the first to assemble and compare information on widely dispersed coastal forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Authorities on each system explore the properties of these unusual trees and their habitats, and formulate guidelines for their appropriate management and protection. Thethirty-six contributing authors include natural resource managers and regulators, ecologists, lumbermen, geneticists, botanists, and paleontologists. The book draws from work on three continents, eight countries, and twenty-three states of the Unites States. One half of the volume is devoted to theseven highly prized, commercially valuable Chamaecyparis species. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the ecology and management of freshwater forests and wetlands located along sea coasts, assessing the current research, comparing data from different geographic regions, and integrating applications and ideas from foresters, land-use managers, and water resource managers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Aimlee D. Laderman: Introduction: Freshwater forests of continental margins: overview and synthesis Part I. Chamaecyparis (False-cypress) Studies 2.: Donald B. Zobel: Chamaecyparis forests: a comparative analysis Pacific Rim 3.: Paul E. Hennon, Charles G. Shaw III, and Everett M. Hansen: Reproduction and forest decline of Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (yellow cedar) in southeast Alaska, USA 4.: Glen B. Dunsworth: Problems and research needs for Chamaecyparis nootkatensis forest management in coastal British Columbia, Canada 5.: John H. Russell: Genecology of Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 6.: Mel Greenup: Managing Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana (ort Orford cedar) to control the root disease caused by Phytophthora lateralis in the Pacific Northwest, USA 7.: Shin-Ichi Yamamato: Regeneration ecology of Chamaecyparis obtusa and C. Pisifera (Hinoki and Sawara cypress), Japan Atlantic Coast, North America 8.: Raymond M. Sheffield, Thomas W. Birch, William H. McWilliams, and John B. Tansey: Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar) in the United States: extent and characterization using broad-scale inventory data 9.: Lucinda McWeeney: Reconstruction of the Mashantucket Pequot cedar swamp paleoenvironment using plant using plant macrofossils, New England, USA 10.: Dwight L. Stolzfus and Ralph E. Good: Plant community structure in Chamaecyparis Thyoides swamps in the New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve, USA 11.: Ronald W. Phillips, Joseph H. Hughes, Marilyn A. Buford, William E. Gardner, Fred M. White, and Clair G. Williams: Atlantic white cedar in North Carolina, USA: a brief history and current regeneration effots 12.: Robert T. Eckert: Population genetic analysis of Chamaecyparis thyoides in New Hampshire and Maine, USA Part II. Systems with Diverse Dominants, Systems not dominated by Chamaecyparis species 13.: Characteristics of the soil and water table in an Alnus japonica (Japanese alder) 14.: Peter A. Khomentovsky: Pinus pumila (Siberian dwarf pine) on the Kamchatka Peninsula, northea...
