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The Depths of the Forest
Poker Club (A John Coffin Mystery)
As Wrong as Two Left Shoes (Devil Barnett S.)
The Cambridge Murders
I've Heard the Banshee Sing: A Detective Christy Kennedy Mystery (Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy Mystery)
Death by the Riverside (Micky Knight Mystery S.)
Inugami Clan
Cheung Chau Dog Fancier's Society
Goodfellowe MP
Jack and Jill
The Straw Men
The Third Inspector Morse Omnibus: "Last Bus to Woodstock", "Wench Is Dead", "Jewel That Was Ours"
Spinsters in Jeopardy (The Alleyn Mysteries)
Sleeping Murder
Ordeal by Innocence
Goodfellowe MP
Belgrave Square (A Victorian Murder Mystery)
The Matrix
Agatha Christie Omnibus: "Mysterious Affair at Styles", "Secret Adversary", "Murder on the Links" Vol 1
Veritas
The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy)
Callander Square (A Victorian Murder Mystery)
Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)
When in Rome
Tied Up in Tinsel

The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series)

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The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series)
Eugenio Fuentes
Manufacturer: Arcadia Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1900850656

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Paternoster, a remote nature reserve in Spain: Gloria, a young and attractive painter, is found brutally murdered. Then a female hiker dies in exactly the same way and next a park ranger is shot dead a point blank range while on patrol. Nature itself becomes an underlying protagonist to form the background to a novel exuding mystery and tension.

Areas influenced by multiple edges and their implications in fragmented landscapes [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]

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Areas influenced by multiple edges and their implications in fragmented landscapes [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]
Q. Li , J. Chen , B. Song , J.J. LaCroix , and M.K Bresee
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PKI02U

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We introduced a new approach for delineating areas of multiple edge influence (AMEI) within a fragmented landscape using a geographic information system (GIS). AMEI was defined as the interface that is affected by more than two neighboring patch types. We decomposed AMEI into three components: AMEI"1, the area where one patch type meets a different patch type; AMEI"2, the area where one patch type meets two different patch types; AMEI"3, the area where one patch type meets three or more other different patch types. This approach provides a direct measure of the complexities of multiple edge effects that may occur at a spatial location, and also measures the amount of the affected area at the patch and landscape levels. Using the Chequamegon National Forest (CNF), USA, as a case study, we found that the total AMEI was approximately 48, 74, 86, and 92% of the landscape with depth of edge influence (DEI) at 30, 60, 90, and 120m, respectively. The more complicated components of the area of multiple edge influence (AMEI"2 and AMEI"3) ranged from 5% (at 30m DEI) to 60% (at 120m DEI) of the studied landscape. Most empirical and modeling studies miss this additional edge complexity if they only consider a single edge structure. In general, AMEI"1 is greater than AMEI"2; AMEI"2 is greater than AMEI"3. Three indices - AMEI to patch area ratio (APAR), AMEI to patch edge area ratio (APEAR), and AMEI to landscape area ratio (ALAR) - were introduced to explain the relative importance of AMEI at the edge, patch, and landscape levels. This approach has the potential to improve model predictions and better inform us about ecological processes that are influenced by multiple edge effects at patch and landscape scales.

Estimating edge effects on ground-dwelling beetles at clearfelled non-riparian stand edges in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management

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Estimating edge effects on ground-dwelling beetles at clearfelled non-riparian stand edges in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management
S.C. Baker , L.A. Barmuta , P.B. McQuillan , and Richards
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PDSPW2

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Edge effects potentially have negative consequences for biodiversity in logging areas. In Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest, ground-dwelling beetle assemblages responded to habitat edges between mature unlogged forest and young regeneration following clearfelling. Transects of pitfall traps extended 100m into unlogged forest and 10m into the felled area firebreaks at four study sites (4 sitesx3 transectsx8traps/transect=96traps). The depth of edge influence extended between 10m and 25m into mature forest, and the beetle assemblage was estimated to be 95% similar to interior forest at approximately 22m from the edge. The species composition of beetles changed gradually with distance from the edge, but for practical purposes we distinguished three zones of edge response: mature forest interior extending >=22m into unlogged forest, firebreak habitat at the edge of the coupe that extends 1m into unlogged forest, and an edge-affected mature forest zone in between. Individual species known to be characteristic of mature and young forest were of greatest indicator value in mature forest interior and firebreak habitat, respectively. Choleva TFIC sp 01 (Leiodidae), Decilaus nigronotatus, D. lateralis and D. striatus (all Curculionidae) were identified as indicator species characteristic of mature forest interior. No species were found to be characteristic of the habitat edges. These results are relevant to current management practices in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest, in particular to the efficacy of linear reserve networks. One hundred metre wide wildlife habitat strips, when bounded by recently harvested forest, are estimated to contain a little over 50% of interior habitat not compromised by edge effects. Small patches of forest ( <1ha) retained in variable retention harvesting are predicted to contain little or no uncompromised interior habitat for ground-dwelling beetles.

Effects of small tree retention and logging slash on snow blight growth on Scots pine regeneration [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management

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Effects of small tree retention and logging slash on snow blight growth on Scots pine regeneration [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management
P. Hansson
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PC0D82

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Effects of flooding duration, -frequency and -depth on the presence of saplings of six woody species in north-west Europe [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]

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Effects of flooding duration, -frequency and -depth on the presence of saplings of six woody species in north-west Europe [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]
S.J. Vreugdenhil , K. Kramer , and T. Pelsma
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PBZY3W

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Under natural conditions the zonation of woody species in floodplains is to a large extent determined by hydrological conditions. Flood survival varies even among closely related species of the same genus. Most studies that quantify flood survival of seedlings and saplings of European floodplain species focus on species of the genera Salix and Populus, while few studies on saplings of Quercus robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Crataegus monogyna have been carried out, and even less on comparing these species groups. We performed a comparative observational study on the presence of saplings ( <150cm) of Quercus robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Crataegus monogyna (hardwood species), Salix alba, Salix viminalis and Populus nigra (softwood species) in nature reserves along the Lower Rhine in the Netherlands. For each plot (n=1178) the duration, frequency and depth of inundation was determined. This was done for both the entire year (January-December) and the growing season (March-October). We found that the presence of the hardwoods decreased with increasing inundation duration and even more so if the inundation occurred during the growing season. Contrary to what is generally assumed, the negative effects of flooding were stronger for F. excelsior than for Q. robur. For the hardwood group the total annual inundation duration was the best explanatory variable. The presence of the softwood species increased with increasing inundation duration and more so if the inundation occurred during the growing season. The average duration per inundation event was the best explanatory variable for this group, especially for both Salix species. The presence of P. nigra was best explained by the average inundation depth. A canonical correspondence analysis on species composition was consistent with these findings. Overall, our results agree with the general perspective of tree zonation along rivers. This is the first study that shows the singular and combined effects of several flooding characteristics on both presence, and species composition, of softwood and hardwood species from riparian woodlands. We outline an approach indicating how the results can be used for the selection of sections in retention areas suitable for the recruitment of the studied tree species.

De Repente En Lo Profundo Del Bosque/ Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest (Nuevos Tiempos / New Times)

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De Repente En Lo Profundo Del Bosque/ Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest (Nuevos Tiempos / New Times)
Amos Oz
Manufacturer: Siruela
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Depth-related fine root dynamics of Fagus sylvatica during exceptional drought [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management

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Depth-related fine root dynamics of Fagus sylvatica during exceptional drought [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management
R. Mainiero , and M. Kazda
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PC0JA4

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Fine roots are the most important plant organs for water and nutrient acquisition. Water and ion uptake is most sensitively altered by the formation of new roots in favourable sites. Fine root turnover, i.e. shedding and replacing fine roots, is therefore important in maximizing root system efficiency. Some evidence exists that accelerating fine root turnover is appropriate to counterbalance negative effects caused by drought albeit formation of new roots in drying soil is a high-risk investment. In the present study, fine root (@?2mm diameter) dynamics in a stand of mature Fagus sylvatica (European beech) was observed during summer 2003 that was extraordinary dry in Central Europe. Depth-related fine root formation and mortality (between 3.4 and 41.6cm soil depth) were observed and related to soil water content and soil temperature. The environmental parameters measured appeared as significant but surprisingly weak determinants for fine root formation and none of them influenced fine root mortality significantly. Fine root mortality was not counterbalanced by root formation but pronounced fine root shedding was found for non-suberized and superficial fine roots. Despite severe soil drying, fine roots were primarily invested in upper and thus unfavourable soil strata. The fine root system of F. sylvatica underlay an almost continuous replacement but there was no evidence for altered fine root turnover as an important response to soil drying. Rather the relative conservative fine root investment pattern and the large losses of fine roots indicate high construction costs at low benefits on the whole plant level and thus may limit the vigour of F. sylvatica if comparable drought periods occur frequently.

Surface and subsurface organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity in a forest soil sequence [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry

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Surface and subsurface organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity in a forest soil sequence [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry
M. Goberna , J. Sanchez , J.A. Pascual , and C. Garcia
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PAA55K

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This digital document is a journal article from Soil Biology and Biochemistry, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The distribution of organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity, from the surface down to 70cm, was investigated through three semiarid Mediterranean soils: (1) a Typic Calcixeroll covered with a native pinewood (NP), (2) a Typic Calcixerept under a mature pine plantation (PP) on abandoned agricultural terraces and (3) a Typic Haploxerept under a grassland (GS). NP and GS had the highest and lowest soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, respectively. Both of them had decreasing SOC contents with depth. PP, which held intermediate SOC levels, showed an increase in total organic C and humic substances C with depth due to their mineralization in the anciently ploughed topsoil layer. The soils were similarly ranked as regards their microbial biomass and activity: NP>PP>GS. In general, the microbial communities were less dense and active towards the deeper horizons. More specifically, PP and GS had a very populated and active top 20-cm layer, which was attributed to the dense root system of their grass cover. NP maintained high microbial biomass and activity levels from 0 to 70cm, progressively diminishing along with shrub root density (e.g. microbial biomass C dropped from 2342 to 394mgkg^-^1 soil). The latter soil presented the sharpest drop of its microbial properties with depth, what was considered an indicator of its quality. Generally decreasing patterns of microbial biomass and activity were not always coincident with previously published gradients of microbial metabolic abilities and genetic structure. This reinforces the need of combining biomass, activity and biodiversity measurements if the ecosystem's functioning is to be fully understood and a real monitoring of degradation processes and restoration strategies is to be achieved.

Depth profiles of radiocarbon and carbon isotopic compositions of organic matter and CO"2 in a forest soil [An article from: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity]

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Depth profiles of radiocarbon and carbon isotopic compositions of organic matter and CO"2 in a forest soil [An article from: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity]
W. Liu , J. Moriizumi , H. Yamazawa , and T. Iida
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PAUFJQ

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Depth profiles of the specific activities of ^1^4C and carbon isotopic compositions (@D^1^4C, @d^1^3C) in soil organic matter and soil CO"2 in a Japanese larch forest were determined. For investigating the transport of CO"2 in soil, specific activities of ^1^4C, @D^1^4C and @d^1^3C in the organic layer, and atmospheric CO"2 in the same forest area were also determined. The specific activity of ^1^4C and @D^1^4C in the soil organic matter decreased with the increase in depth of 0-60cm, while that of soil CO"2 did not vary greatly at a soil depth of 13-73cm and was more prevalent than that of atmospheric CO"2. Peaks of specific activities of ^1^4C appeared at the depth of 0-4cm and @D^1^4C values were positive in the depth range from 0 to 15cm. These results suggest that the present soil at a depth of 0-4cm had been produced from the mid-1950s up until 1963, and the bomb C had reached the depth of 15cm in the objective soil area. The @d^1^3C in the soil organic matter increased at the depth of 0-55cm, while that of soil CO"2 collected on 8 November 2004 decreased rapidly at the depth of 0-13cm and only slightly at the depth of 53-73cm. By combining the @D^1^4C and @d^1^3C of the respective components and using the Keeling plot approach it was made clear that the entering of atmospheric CO"2 showed a large contribution to soil CO"2 at the depth of 0-13cm and a negligible contribution at the depth of 53-73cm for soil air collected on 8 November 2004. Respiration of live roots was presumed to be the main source of soil CO"2 at the depth of 53-73cm on 8 November 2004.

Your future in forestry (Careers in depth, 29)

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Your future in forestry (Careers in depth, 29)
David Henry Hanaburgh
Manufacturer: R. Rosen Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0823901726

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