[PDF] A Primer On Stand And Forest Inventory Designs Classic Reprint eBook

Author : H. Gyde Lund
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2018-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781396042935

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Excerpt from A Primer on Stand and Forest Inventory Designs Land managers need to know the location, the extent, quantity, and condition of the natural resources that they manage and how those resources are changing over time. Stand inventories provide this kind of information for areas generally 100 acres or less as a prelude to treatment. Forest inventories provide similar information over large areas for resource planning purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Donella Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1603581480

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The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

Author : Kim Golombisky
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1351668765

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White Space Is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout guide that introduces concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communication across a variety of formats—from web to print. Sections on Gestalt theory, color theory, and WET layout are expanded to offer more in-depth content on those topics. This new edition features new covering current trends in web design—Mobile-first, UI/UX design, and web typography—and how they affect a designer’s approach to a project. The entire book will receive an update using new examples and images that show a more diverse set of graphics that go beyond print and web and focus on tablet, mobile and advertising designs.

Author : Stephen D. Elliott
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 9781842464427

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Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.

Author : Harold E. Burkhart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9048131707

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Drawing upon a wealth of past research and results, this book provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art methods for empirical modeling of forest trees and stands. It opens by describing methods for quantifying individual trees, progresses to a thorough coverage of whole-stand, size-class and individual-tree approaches for modeling forest stand dynamics, growth and yield, moves on to methods for incorporating response to silvicultural treatments and wood quality characteristics in forest growth and yield models, and concludes with a discussion on evaluating and implementing growth and yield models. Ideal for use in graduate-level forestry courses, this book also provides ready access to a plethora of reference material for researchers working in growth and yield modeling.

Author : J. K. Vanclay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1994
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Whole stand models. Size class models. Single-tree and tree list models. Data Requirements. Constructing growth models. Forest site evaluation. Diameter increment. Mortality and merchantability. Regeneration and recruitment. Model evaluation and re-calibration. Implementation and use. Future directions.

Author : Massimo Vignelli
Publisher : Lars Müller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 9783037782255

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An important manual for young designers from Italian modernist Massimo Vignelli The famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli allows us a glimpse of his understanding of good design in this book, its rules and criteria. He uses numerous examples to convey applications in practice - from product design via signaletics and graphic design to Corporate Design. By doing this he is making an important manual available to young designers that in its clarity both in terms of subject matter and visually is entirely committed to Vignelli's modern design.

Author : Johnny Saldana
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1446200124

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The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers is unique in providing, in one volume, an in-depth guide to each of the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. In total, 29 different approaches to coding are covered, ranging in complexity from beginner to advanced level and covering the full range of types of qualitative data from interview transcripts to field notes. For each approach profiled, Johnny Saldaña discusses the method’s origins in the professional literature, a description of the method, recommendations for practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example.