The Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology is an essential resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective.

This new edition has been fully revised and updated throughout to reflect the profound and unprecedented changes in both forests and climates since the publication of the first edition in 2015. The handbook reflects key developments in the field of forest dynamics and large-scale processes, as well as the changes that are now manifesting in different types of forests across the globe as a result of climate change. It covers both natural and managed forests, from boreal, temperate, sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. In this second edition, the breadth of the handbook has been expanded with new chapters on mountain forests, monodominance, pathogens and invertebrate pests and amphibians and reptiles in forest ecosystems. Original author teams are complemented by the addition of new authors to offer fresh perspectives, and the second edition places greater emphasis on the applicability of each topic at a global level. The handbook is divided into seven parts:

• Part I: The forest
• Part II: Forest dynamics
• Part III: Forest flora and fauna
• Part IV: Energy and nutrients
• Part V: Forest conservation and management
• Part VI: Forest and climate change
• Part VII: Human ecology

The Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology is an essential reference text for a wide range of students and scholars of ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography and natural resource management.

Kelvin S.-H. Peh is an associate professor of conservation science in the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

Richard T. Corlett is an Emeritus professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China, and an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. He was previously a professor at the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong, China.

Yves Bergeron is an Emeritus professor of forest ecology and management at Université du Québec en Abitibi- Témiscamingue and Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.