That's one of Gary Beluzo's favorite terms and he's one of the few people who understands it and uses it (he may have coined the term) so I'm sure he'll elaborate. I have a sense of the meaning and I kinda like it- I believe for Gary, it's what happens in old growth forests- to what extent it may be a useful principle in any sort of managed forest is the 60 million dollar question.
In particular, the question is interesting regarding forests managed for old growth structures, as described in that brochure. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Joslin To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: "Restoring Late-Successional Forest Structure"??? Joe, can you get me (us) up-to-speed on the term "autopoietic" as applied to forest ecology? It sounds like you mean self-regenerating or self-maintaining, not sure though. -AJ Joseph Zorzin wrote: > check out > http://www.masswoods.net/images/stories/pdf/forest_mgr_guide_ls_structure_web.pdf > > comments? > > Gary Beluzo? What say ye about this? Those restored pseudo semi old > growth forests won't be autopoietic? > > Joe > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
