This collection reviews current research on balancing commercial use with the range of ecosystem services delivered by boreal and temperate forests.


Chapters survey advances in understanding forest ecophysiology, including mechanisms of root and canopy development and the way forest tress react to abiotic stress. The book also discusses current understanding of the ecosystem services that forests deliver and how they can be balanced with activities such as logging. Building on this foundation, it then reviews advances in sustainable forest management techniques, including improvements in breeding, monitoring forest health, innovations in planting, stand management and regeneration as well as harvesting/felling. The book also reviews ways of managing, insect and fungal pests as well as natural hazards. The final section of the book assesses sustainable ways of developing and diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber, biomass, non-timber products and recreational services.

Contributions by: Philip J. Burton, Donato Chiatante, Mattia Terzaghi, Gabriella Stefania Scippa, Antonio Montagnoli, W. Keith Moser, Adam P. Coble, Lea Hallik, Andrew D. Richardson, Jan Pisek, Kairi Adamson, Russell T. Graham, Cynthia F. Moser, Tanja G. M. Sanders, Peter Spathelf, Andreas Bolte, Matthew J. McGrath, Anne Sofie Lansø, Guillaume Marie, Yi-Ying Chen, Tuomo Kalliokoski, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Kim Naudts, Philippe Peylin, Aude Valade, Yamina Micaela Rosas, Pablo Luis Peri, Héctor Bahamonde, Juan Manuel Cellini, Marcelo Daniel Barrera, Alejandro Huertas Herrera, María Vanessa Lencinas, Guillermo Martínez Pastur, Anne Oxbrough, Jaime Pinzón, Patricia Butler-Leopold, Constance Hausman, Louis Iverson, Todd Ontl, Leslie Brandt, Stephen Matthews, Matthew Peters, Anantha Prasad, Donald Grebner, Pete Bettinger, Andrew Lister, Hans Pretzsch, Christophe Orazio, Peter Freer-Smith, Tim Payn, Tom Fox, Daniel G. Neary, Thomas J. Dean, Woodam Chung, Kevin Lyons, Lucas Wells, Barbara Bentz, Pierluigi Bonello, Horst Delb, Christopher Fettig, Therese Poland, Deepa Pureswaran, Steven Seybold, Tod Ramsfield, Kathy Lewis, John A. Stanturf, Lee Frelich, Pablo J. Donoso, Timo Kuuluvainen, David Nicholls, James L. Chamberlain, Christine J. Small, Michelle Baumflek, Tatjana Stevanovic, John Daigle