Long-Term Response of a Forest Watershed Ecosystem

Wayne T. Swank is Scientist Emeritus, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, and Adjunct Professor at both the University of Georgia and Clemson University. Jackson R. Webster is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech, which is officially Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

"No serious student of forest hydrology or ecology can survive long without encountering the name "Coweeta." The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in North Carolina has rightly become world-famous across a broad spectrum of environmental science. It is well over 20 years since the last compilation of Coweeta research appeared in book form, and this volume provides a very welcome update." --Professor Tim Burt, Durham University"Forest watershed research is reaching an age when some long-term trends - or the lack of them - can be evaluated. Aside from its great value as a synthesis of a comprehensive long-term research project in and of itself, this volume is a welcome scientifically objective investigation of the long-term effects of forest harvesting. This volume should reside on the bookshelves of scientists (both basic and applied), educators, policy makers, and environmentaladvocates." --Dale Johnson, Emeritus Professor, University of Nevada"This volume is a most compelling case on the value and necessity of long-term research on ecological patterns and processes. Findings summarized here are applicable way beyond the ecology and management of southern Appalachian hardwoods, by providing a framework on improving both economic and ecological values with appropriate forest management practices." --Donald J. Leopold, Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF

• Table of Contents ; Chapter 1- Introduction: programmatic background, site description, experimental approach and treatment, natural disturbances. ; Wayne T. Swank and Jackson R. Webster. ; Chapter 2- Successional forest dynamics: 20 years following clearcutting. ; Lindsay R. Boring, Katherine J. Elliott, and Wayne T. Swank ; Chapter 3- Response and recovery of water yield and timing, stream sediment, abiotic parameters, and stream chemistry. ; Wayne T. Swank, Jennifer D. Knoepp, James M. Vose, Stephanie Laseter, and Jackson R. Webster. ; Chapter 4- Long-and short-term changes in soil nutrient availability following logging. ; Jennifer D. Knoepp, Bruce L. Haines, Wayne T. Swank. ; Chapter 5- Soluble organic nutrient fluxes. ; Robert G. Qualls, Bruce L. Haines, Wayne T. Swank. ; Chapter 6- Dynamics of dissolved organic carbon in a stream during a quarter century of forest succession. ; Judy L. Meyer, Jackson R. Webster, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and E. F. Benfield. ; Chapter 7- Woody debris decomposition and its contribution to the forest floor and soil on watershed 7. ; Kim G. Mattson and Wayne T. Swank ; Chapter 8- Recovery of decomposition and soil microarthropod communities. ; Liam Heneghan and Alissa Salmore ; Chapter 9- Canopy Arthropods ; Barbara C. Reynolds, Timothy D. Schowalter, and D. A. Crossley, Jr. ; Chapter 10- Recovery of particulate organic matter dynamics in a stream draining a logged watershed-- a pressing situation. ; Jackson R. Webster, E. F. Benfield, Stephen W. Golladay, and Matthew E. McTammany. ; Chapter 11- Stream macroinvertebrate response to clearcut logging. ; J. Bruce Wallace and Damon Ely. ; Chapter 12- Comparisons with results from the Fernow Experimental forest in the central Appalachians. ; Mary Beth Adams and James N. Kochendenfer. ; Chapter 13- Comparisons with results from the Hubbard Brook Experimental forest in the northern Appalachians. ; James W. Hornbeck, Amey S. Bailey, Christopher Eagar, and John L. Campbell. ; Chapter 14- Ecosystem stability and forest watershed management: A synthesis from 30+ years of research on WS7. ; Jackson R. Webster, Wayne T. Swank, James M. Vose, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and Katherine J. Elliott.