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Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodlands may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of primary or secondary succession. This book presents research in the study of woodlands, including temporal and quantitative changes in the proportion of different land-use forms in the landscape of woodlands; butterfly communities in the woodland of Mount Fuji, Japan; experiences of the Caatinga and semiarid Mediterranean woodlands; ecology and management of natural and reforested Canary Island pine stands; and the ecological distribution of miombo woodlands productivity. (Imprint: Nova Press)

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Colonization of Post-Agricultural Black Alder, pp. 13-48 (Alnus Glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) Woods by Woodland Flora
(Anna Orczewska, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)

Diversity Patterns, Adult Resource Use and Conservation of Butterfly Communities in and Around The Primeval Woodland of Mount Fuji, Central Japan, pp. 49-114
(Masahiko Kitahara, Department of Animal Ecology, Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Sciences (YIES), Kenmarubi, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan)

Guidelines for Sustainable Management of Degraded Lands: Experiences on Caatinga and Semiarid Mediterranean Woodlands
(Miguel Angel Herrera Machuca, Rinaldo Luiz Caraciolo Ferreira, Juan Ramon Molina Martinez, Mercia Virginia Ferreira dos Santos, Departament of Forest Engineering, Universidad de Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, Córdoba, Spain, and others)

Partial Harvesting in Old-Growth Boreal Forests and the Preservation of Animal Diversity from Ants to Woodland Caribou, pp. 115-136
(Daniel Fortin, Christian Hébert, Jean-Philippe Légaré, Nicolas Courbin, Kyle Swiston, James Hodson, Mélanie-Louise LeBlanc, Christian Dussault, David Pothier, Jean-Claude Ruel, Serge Couturier, Département de Biologie, NSERC–Université Laval Industrial Research Chair in Silviculture and Wildlife, Laval University, Québec, Canada, and others)

Ecology and Management of Natural and Reforested Canary Island Pine Stands, pp. 137-159
(José Ramón Arévalo, Agustín Naranjo Cigala, José María Fernández-Palacios, Silvia Fernández-Lugo, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain, and others)

A Landscape History Approach to the Assessment of Ancient Woodlands ^, pp. 161-184
(Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Miombo Woodland Productivity: The Potential Contribution to Carbon Sequestration and Payment for Environmental Services in East and Southern Africa, pp. 185-201
(Stephen Syampungani, Paxie W. Chirwa, School of Natural Resources, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia, and others)

British Bluebells: The Potential of using a Protected Species as a Provider of Fine Chemicals to Enhance its Conservation, pp. 203-213
(Vera Thoss, School of Chemistry, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom and Vera Bluebell Limited, Llanberis, United Kingdom)

African Management of Woodland, pp. 215-231
(Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai, University of Liverpool, School of History, Liverpool, United Kingdom)*

Index