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This open access book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems with the aim of casting light on changes in the dynamics of riparian forests over time. The research, focusing on the Ooyamazawa riparian forest, one of the remaining old-growth forests in Japan, has yielded a number of interesting outcomes. First, it shows that large-scale disturbances afford various trees opportunities for regeneration and are thus the driving force for the coexistence of canopy trees in riparian forests. Second, it identifies changes in reproductive patterns, highlighting that seed production has in fact quantitatively increased over the past two decades. Third, it describes the decline in forest floor vegetation caused by deer grazing and reveals how this decline has affected bird and insect populations. The book illustrates the interconnectedness of phenomena within an ecosystem and the resultant potential for cascade effects and also stresses the need for long-term ecological studies of climate change impacts on forests. It will be of interest to both professionals and academics in the field of forest science.

Ecology --- Forestry --- Plant Ecology --- Ecosystems --- Environment, general --- Riparian Ecology --- Environmental Sciences --- Changes in forest vegetation --- Long-term ecological research --- Life history of trees --- Riparian forest --- Natural disturbance --- Masting behavior --- Forest decline --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques --- Botany & plant sciences --- The environment

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This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions.

Computer Applications --- Environment, general --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems --- Information Systems and Communication Service --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems --- Geography, general --- Computer and Information Systems Applications --- Environmental Sciences --- Database Management System --- Software Engineering --- Geography --- cloud computing --- cloud providers --- cloud services --- computer networks --- computing resource --- data communication systems --- databases --- distributed computer systems --- distributed systems --- engineering --- grid computing --- internet --- network protocols --- open access --- parallel processing systems --- signal processing --- telecommunication networks --- wireless telecommunication systems --- Information technology: general issues --- The environment --- Expert systems / knowledge-based systems --- Computer networking & communications --- Operating systems