GEOG 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frederic Clements, Climax Community, Reforestation

• School: UBC
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 410
• Professor: K A R E N A B K K E R

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Chapter 10 explores the complex relationships between people and trees. Of particular concern are the ideas that people construct about trees, and how the way that we understand trees influences how we interact with them. This chapter considers trees through the perspectives of population and scarcity (chapter 2), markets and commodities (chapter 3), political economy (chapter 7), and ethics (chapter. Trees are defined as perennial plants with a woody structure. We use them, worship them, and fear them. The ways that we understand trees affects how we interact with them. Invasive species may replace a forest during succession. E(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal issues are ofte(cid:374) portrayed as (cid:862)people (cid:448)ersus trees(cid:863) because trees have symbolic value a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s ha(cid:448)e dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally altered the (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)positio(cid:374) of the (cid:449)orld"s trees. However, we must not ignore the integration of trees into human systems and the ability of trees to recover from disturbances. The result is a u- shaped curve of forest cover over time.