This title is suitable for forest researchers worldwide; resource managers working in forest management and biodiversity conservation; conservation biologists; wildlife biologists; and, ornithologists and mammalogists. "Forest Pattern and Ecological Process" is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species. It draws together major insights based on over 170 published scientific papers and books. It provides a hitherto previously unrecognised set of perspectives of how forests function, and the ecological processes and spatial patterns that make a forest what it is and allow a forest to support many important elements of biota. The book combines key strands of research on wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management. The extent of synthes is at a range of key levels. It includes the depth of new perspectives on forest processes and ecological patterns in one of the world's truly great forests - the montane ash forests. It features the breadth of past and very current research that is both pure and applied. It covers a range of key topics and how they are inter-twined - wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management.