SPRUCE: ECOLOGY, MANAGEMENT ANDCONSERVATION -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. NORWAY SPRUCE PICEA ABIESREGENERATION AND CANOPYDISTURBANCE IN A CARPATHIANSUBALPINE FOREST -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA -- Observations of Spruce Regeneration -- Statistical Analyses -- RESULTS -- Cohort '93 -- Seedlings -- Saplings -- DISCUSSION -- The Role of Field-Layer Vegetation in Spruce Regeneration -- The Role of Windthrow Mounds and Coarse Woody Debris inSpruce Regeneration -- Canopy Gaps as a Factor Driving Spruce Regeneration -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. UNCULTURED ARCHAEA IN SPRUCERHIZOSPHERES AND MYCORRHIZAS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Boreal Forests -- 1.2 Ectomycorrhizal Fungi -- 1.3. Mycorrhizosphere/Rhizosphere Concept -- 1.4 Tree Rhizosphere Bacteria -- 2. ARCHAEA -- 2.1 Soil Archaea -- 2.2 Archaea in Roots and Rhizosphere Soil -- 2.3 Phylogeny of Archaea in Boreal Forest Norway Spruce Rootsand Mycorrhizas -- 2.4 Effect of Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Population of Archaea -- 2.5 Specific effect of Tree Species on the Rhizospheric ArchaealPopulation -- 2.6 Anaerobic and Aerobic Archaea in the Boreal ForestMycorrhizosphere -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. REVERSIBLE VARIATIONS IN SOME WOODPROPERTIES OF NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEAABIES KARST.), DEPENDING ON THE TREEFELLING DATE -- ABSTRACT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- LARGE SCALE RESEARCH -- FOCUSING ON ONE REPRESENTATIVE SITE -- TESTS ON WATER SORPTION (AFTER DRYING) -- COMPLEMENTARY TESTS ON COMPRESSION STRENGTH -- COMPLEMENTARY TESTS ON CALORIMETRY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. EXPLORATION OF FOREST VEGETATIONWITH DYNAMIC MODELING, GIS ANDREMOTE SENSING -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GIS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION.

3. REMOTE SENSING FOR FOREST MANAGEMENTAND PROTECTION -- 4. GPS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION -- 5. MODELING FOR FOREST MANAGEMENTAND PROTECTION -- 6. A CASE STUDY: USING GIS AND DYNAMIC MODELINGTO STUDY THE SUCCESSION OF A NORWAYSPRUCE FOREST -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. VITAMIN C AS A STRESSBIOINDICATOR OF NORWAY SPRUCE:A CASE STUDY IN SLOVENIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIAL AND METHODS -- 2.1. Study Area and Sampling Procedures -- 2.2. Biochemical Analysis -- 2.3. Statistical Analysis -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Mean Annual Contents of Vitamin C in Spruce Needles -- 3.2. Correlation Analysis -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.