Achievements and challenges in forest energetics

Abstract

Identifies the major influences in the study of forest energetics since the 1960s, identifying distinct contributions from US, UK, Japanese and Soviet workers. Comments are made on general patterns of energy flow in forest ecosystems, and attention is paid to changes in energy flow with forest succession. New approaches and challenges are noted: stand architecture and tree physiology; root dynamics; detritus dynamics; interplay between energy and nutrients; controls on rates of forest grazing or infection; modelling forest stand dynamics; and energetics at a landscape scale. -P.J.Jarvis