The Health of North American Forests: Stress and Risk Assessment
The Health of North American Forests: Stress and Risk Assessment
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DOI：
10.1093/jof/88.1.32
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发表时间：
1990-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
William H. Smith
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作者：
William H. Smith
1980年代将被森林专业人员铭记为社会对森林系统的活力和完整性给予强烈和广泛关注的十年。关于热带森林砍伐和温带森林减少的每日报道提高了社会对森林健康的认识。因此，在我们进入1990年代时，评估我们森林的健康状况并在这一至关重要的领域提出新的倡议是适当的。对北美森林的健康状况作出概括是困难的，因为森林的多样性、管理制度和压力因素都非常多。这篇概述文章总结了森林健康的基本原理，重大的健康风险，以及美国温带森林未来森林健康管理的优先事项。
The 1980s will be remembered by forest professionals as a decade of intense and widespread societal concern for the vitality and integrity of forest systems. Daily reports of tropical deforestation and temperate forest decline have heightened social consciousness of forest health. It is therefore appropriate, as we enter the 1990s, to assess the health of our forests and propose new initiatives in this critically important area. Making generalizations about the health of North American forests is difficult because of the extraordinary diversity of forests, management regimes, and stress factors. This overview article summarizes forest health fundamentals, significant health risks, and priorities in future forest health management for temperate forests of the United States.