Forests deliver both economic benefits and a range of key ecosystem services. This collection reviews current research on optimising their use, from understanding tree physiology to improvements in planting, stand management, sustainable logging and product diversification.

This collection reviews current research on balancing commercial use with the range of ecosystem services delivered by boreal and temperate forests. Part 1 surveys advances in understanding forest ecophysiology, including mechanisms of root and canopy development and the way forest tress react to abiotic stress. Part 2 discusses current understanding of the ecosystem services that forests deliver and how they can be balanced with activities such as logging. Building on the previous two sections, the third part of the book reviews advances in sustainable forest management techniques, including improvements in breeding, monitoring forest health, innovations in planting, stand management and regeneration as well as harvesting/felling. The book also reviews ways of managing, insect and fungal pests as well as natural hazards. The final section of the book assesses sustainable ways of developing and diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber, biomass, non-timber products and recreational services. With its distinguished editor and range of expert contributors, this will be a standard reference on sustainable forest management for forest scientists and forest managers.