Conserving forest biodiversity : a comprehensive multiscaled approach
Lindenmayer, David B.2002
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In Conserving Forest Biodiversity, David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas. They lay the foundations for such a strategy, bringing together the latest scientific information on landscape ecology, forestry, conservation biology, and related disciplines. The case studies cover a wide variety of conservation planning and management issues from North America, South America, and Australia, ranging from relatively intact forest ecosystems to an intensively managed plantation. Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of more effective approaches to maintaining forest biodiversity. It examines the key issues and gives practical guidelines for sustained forest management, highlighting the critical role of the matrix for scientists, managers, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders involved in efforts to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forest landscapes.[Publisher]
Main title:
Conserving forest biodiversity : a comprehensive multiscaled approach / by David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin.
Imprint:
Washington, DC : Island Press, 2002.
Collation:
351 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, tables
Notes:
Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust collectionSydney Catchment Authority collection
Contents:
Principles for biodiversity conservation in the matrix. Critical roles for the matrix -- The matrix and major themes in landscape ecology and conservation biology -- Objectives and principles for developing comprehensive plans for forest biodiversity conservation -- Using information about natural forests, landscapes, and disturbance regimes -- Biodiversity conservation across multiple spatial scales. Importance and limitations of large ecological reserves -- Landscape-level considerations within the matrix : protected habitat at the patch level -- Landscape-level considerations : goals for structures and habitats, transport systems, and distribution of harvest units in space and time -- Matrix management in the harvested stand -- Revising a multiscaled approach to forest biodiversity conservation -- Matrix management in plantation landscapes -- Case studies in developing multiscaled plans for biodiversity conservation. Case study 1 : Northern, California, and Mexican spotted owls -- Case study 2 : Leadbeater's possum and biodiversity conservation in mountain ash forests -- Case study 3 : the Tumut fragmentation experiment -- Case study 4 : the biological dynamics of forest fragments project -- Case study 5 : the Rio condor project -- Adaptive management and the human aspects of matrix management. Knowledge gaps in forest and biodiversity management : areas for future research -- Social and other dimensions associated with matrix management -- Future directions.
ISBN:
9781559639354 (paperback)
Dewey class:
333.953
Language:
English
BRN:
4122
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Research | Tech Book | 333.953 CON | Available |