Routledge Forest Quality: Assessing Forests at Landscape Scale

This groundbreaking text from Routledge examines forest quality beyond simple tree counts, addressing how natural forests are being replaced by plantations and intensively managed alternatives worldwide. The book explores rapid changes in forest character, including declining species diversity and structural variation, with significant implications for biodiversity and human values. Forest Quality: Assessing Forests at a Landscape Scale provides essential frameworks for understanding and evaluating forests at broader ecological levels, making it a vital resource for environmental scientists, forest managers, conservation professionals, and anyone concerned with sustainable forestry practices and ecosystem health in an era of global deforestation.