Forest Monitoring: Methods for terrestrial investigations in Europe with an overview of North America and Asia

Content: 
Series Page
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Dedication
Page v

Contributors
Pages xxi-xxiv

Preface
Pages xxv-xxvii
Marco Ferretti, Richard Fischer

Chapter 1 - Forest Monitoring: An Introduction
Pages 3-18
Marco Ferretti

Chapter 2 - Pan-European Forest Monitoring: An Overview
Pages 19-32
Martin Lorenz, Richard Fischer

Chapter 3 - Forest and Related-Ecosystem Monitoring in Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia
Pages 33-48
Hiroyuki Sase, Wilfredo M. Carandang, Elizabeth Philip, Masamichi Takahashi, Naoyuki Yamashita

Chapter 4 - Forest Monitoring Methods in the United States and Canada: An Overview
Pages 49-73
Borys Tkacz, Kurt Riitters, Kevin E. Percy

Chapter 5 - A Quality Assurance Framework for Designing Forest Monitoring Programs
Pages 77-90
Marco Ferretti

Chapter 6 - Concepts and Design Principles Adopted in the International Cooperative Program on the Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests)
Pages 91-104
Marco Ferretti

Chapter 7 - Large-Scale Pan-European Forest Monitoring Network: A Statistical Perspective for Designing and Combining Country Estimates. Example for Defoliation
Pages 105-135
Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici, Francesca Bottalico, Marco Ferretti, Piermaria Corona, Anna Barbati, Lorenzo Fattorini

Chapter 8 - Assessment of Tree Condition
Pages 139-167
Johannes Eichhorn, Peter Roskams

Chapter 9 - Tree Phenology
Pages 169-182
Urša Vilhar, Egbert Beuker, Toshie Mizunuma, Mitja Skudnik, François Lebourgeois, Kamel Soudani, Matthew Wilkinson

Chapter 10 - Tree Growth Measurements in Long-Term Forest Monitoring in Europe
Pages 183-204
Matthias Dobbertin, Markus Neumann, Hans-Werner Schroeck

Chapter 11 - Assessment of Visible Foliar Injury Induced by Ozone
Pages 205-221
Marcus Schaub, Vicent Calatayud

Chapter 12 - Tree Foliage: Sampling and Chemical Analyses
Pages 223-236
Pasi Rautio, Alfred Fürst

Chapter 13 - Diversity and Composition of Plant and Lichen Species
Pages 237-250
Roberto Canullo, Franz Starlinger, Paolo Giordani

Chapter 14 - Litterfall—Biomass, Chemistry, Leaf Area, and Links with Wider Ecosystem Functioning
Pages 251-264
Rona M. Pitman

Chapter 15 - Forest Soil: Characterization, Sampling, Physical, and Chemical Analyses
Pages 267-300
Nathalie Cools, Bruno De Vos

Chapter 16 - Soil Solution: Sampling and Chemical Analyses
Pages 301-315
Tiina Maileena Nieminen, Kirsti Derome, Henning Meesenburg, Bruno De Vos

Chapter 17 - Meteorology
Pages 319-336
Stephan Raspe, Annemarie Bastrup-Birk, Stefan Fleck, Wendelin Weis, Helmut Mayer, Henning Meesenburg, Markus Wagner, Dirk Schindler, Karl Gartner

Chapter 18 - Atmospheric Deposition to Forest Ecosystems
Pages 337-374
Karin Hansen, Anne Thimonier, Nicholas Clarke, Jeroen Staelens, Daniel Žlindra, Peter Waldner, Aldo Marchetto

Chapter 19 - Methods for Measuring Gaseous air Pollutants in Forests
Pages 375-384
Vicent Calatayud, Marcus Schaub

Chapter 20 - Quality Assurance in International Forest Monitoring in Europe
Pages 387-396
Marco Ferretti, Nils König

Chapter 21 - Data Quality in Field Surveys: Methods and Results for Tree Condition, Phenology, Growth, Plant Diversity and Foliar Injury due to Ozone
Pages 397-414
Marco Ferretti, Egbert Beuker, Vicent Calatayud, Roberto Canullo, Matthias Dobbertin, Johannes Eichhorn, Markus Neumann, Peter Roskams, Marcus Schaub

Chapter 22 - Data Quality in Laboratories: Methods and Results for Soil, Foliar, and Water Chemical Analyses
Pages 415-453
Nils König, Nathalie Cools, Kirsti Derome, Anna Kowalska, Bruno De Vos, Alfred Fürst, Aldo Marchetto, Philip O\'Dea, Gabriele A. Tartari

Chapter 23 - Methods for Database Quality Assessment
Pages 455-467
Oliver Granke

Chapter 24 - Reporting Forest Monitoring
Pages 469-480
Andy J. Moffat, Richard Fischer

Chapter 25 - Terrestrial Methods in Forest Monitoring: Toward the Next Generation?
Pages 483-496
Marco Ferretti, Richard Fischer, Andy J. Moffat

Index
Pages 497-507