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The management of oak forests is essential to the ecosystems of many countries, and current trends in managing forests are based on sustaining desired ecosystems, rather than timber and other commodity outputs. By considering oak forests as responsive ecosystems, this updated new edition draws on the authors' extensive experience in order to examine topics essential to understanding the unique characteristics of oaks and oak forests, covering distribution, ecology and population dynamics, and silvicultural practices for multi-resource management such as creating and sustaining oak savannas, and increasing and measuring acorn production. With new information on carbon sequestration, biofuel production, impacts of climate change, and sudden oak death - a serious and newly discovered pathogen - the book will be essential reading for ecologists, silviculturists, environmentalists, wildlife managers and students in these disciplines.

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Paul S. Johnson is a retired research forester who began his professional career as an instructor at Michigan State University. He subsequently joined the U.S Forest Service, Northern Research Station, in Columbia, Missouri, where he worked for more than 30 years. He has been the creator and driving force behind the first and subsequent editions of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Paul is an accomplished photographer, historian and essayist. He has employed those skills to author other books on other topics including: Where Pelicans Fly--A Celebration of the Extraordinary Everyday (ISBN-13: 978-1479309580). Chequamegon: A Dispatch from Northern Wisconsin (ISBN-13: 978-1077886896). A Place Called Chequamegon (ASIN: ?B0CB7MCPXZ). Stephen Shifley is a retired research forester who for 41 years worked for the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. His major research topics included modelling growth and yield of hardwood forests, quantifying forest stand dynamics, modelling landscape-scale patterns of forest change in response to disturbance, quantifying structure and composition of old-growth forests in the Midwest U.S., and quantifying regional indicators of forest sustainability. He has published more than 150 scientific and technical manuscripts. Beginning in 2000, he has coauthored the first three editions of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Robert (Bob) Rogers is a retired professor of forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he spent more than 30 years educating the next generation of forest managers. In the 1990s he and Paul Johnson developed the initial concept and outline for a project that eventually became the first edition of the Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks. Bob's areas of expertise include how soil-site relationships affect forest development and the application of quantitative methods to manage forests

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