Reconstruction of fragmented ecosystems : global and regional perspectives
1993
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This book is based on papers given at a workshop held at Tammin in Western Australia between October 7-11, 1991. The participants at the workshop consisted of ecologists from Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, UK and USA, as well as scientists involved in administration, two farmers and a politician from the Australian Federal parliament.
Reconstruction of fragmented ecosystems : global and regional perspectives / edited by Denis A. Saunders, Richard J. Hobbs and Paul R. Ehrlich.
Chipping Norton, N.S.W : Surrey Beatty & Sons in association with Western Australian Laboratory of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Wildlife and Ecology; Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University; Tammin Land Conservation District Committee, 1993.
326 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits. ; 30 cm.
Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust collection.
Machine derived contents note: Preface. Nature Conservation Series. By D. A. Saunders and I. E. Beatty ..v -- Preface. By D. A. Saunders, RKJ. Hobbs and P. K Ehrlich .ix-xi -- List of Colour Plates .xiv -- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. The scale of the human enterprise. By P. REhrlich 3-8 -- 2. Social constraints on restoration ecology. By G. C. Daily 9-16 -- 3. Global co-operation and ecosystem restoration. By A. H. Ehrlich 17-25 -- 4. Restoration ecology and climatic change. By A. R Main .27-32 -- 5. Some human responses to global problems. By E. C. Lefroy and R.J. Hobbs .33-39 -- 6. Discussion report: how global change will impact on restoration projects. By PR J. Hobbs -- andS.A.Scougall 41-42 -- REGIONAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES -- 7. What do we presently understand about ecosystem fragmentation? By Y. Haila, -- D. A. Saunders and R J. Hobbs 45-55 -- 8. Habitat edges and restoration: methods for quantifying edge effects and predicting the -- results of restoration efforts. By T. D. Sisk and C. R Margules 57-69 -- 9. Corridors in restoration of fragmented landscapes. By G. Merriam and D. A. Saunders 71-87 -- 10. Climatic considerations in reserve design and ecological restoration. By S. B. Weiss and -- D. D. Murphy. 89-107 -- 11. Contrasting roles of remnants in old and newly impacted landscapes: lessons for ecosystem -- reconstruction. By P. Angelstam and G. W. Arnold 109-25 -- 12. Restoration ecology and invasions. By R J. Hobbs and H. A. Mooney 127-33 -- 13. Ecology and stress from a population genetics perspective. By M. W. Feldman 135-40 -- 14. The loss of biodiversity and landscape restoration: conservation, management, survival. -- An Australian perspective. By H. F. Recher 141-51 -- 15. The role of patchiness in reconstructed wheatbelt landscapes. By R. J. Lambeck and -- D. A. Saunders 153-61 -- 16. Edge effects in grazed and ungrazed Western Australian wheatbelt remnants in relation to -- ecosystem reconstruction. By S. A Scougall,J. D. Majer and RJ. Hobbs 163-78 -- 17. Effects of fragmentation on some Florida ecosystems, and how to redress them. -- ByD. Simberloff .179-87 -- 18. Discussion report: management implications of restructuring a fragmented landscape. -- By A. R. Main and R J. Lambeck .189-90 -- SOLUTIONS: MAKING RESTORATION ECOLOGY WORK -- 19. Ecological restoration: replenishing our national and global ecological capital. -- ByJ. CairnsJr. 193-208 -- 20. Restoration of function or diversity? By. K Armstrong 209-14 -- 21. What information do primary producers need from ecologists? By D. Couper 215-23 -- 22. Restoring seemingly natural communities on agricultural land. By G. Fry and R. Main 225-41 -- 23. Reconciling agriculture and nature conservation: toward a restoration strategy for the -- Western Australian wheatbelt. By E. C. Lefroy, R. J. Hobbs and M. Scheltema 243-57 -- 24. The recognition and implementation of landscape management objectives for agriculture -- in the UK By B. H. Green .259-66 -- 25. Special people, a special animal and a special vision: the first steps to restoring a -- fragmented tropical landscape. By F. H.J. Crome andJ. Bentrupperbilumer 267-79 -- 26. Landcare groups in Western Australia: the role of self help groups in restoring degraded -- farmland. By K F. Goss andJ. Chatfield 281-93 -- 27. Communication: how can ecologists get their message out? P. R Ehrlich 295-301 -- CONCLUSION -- 28. Reconstruction of fragmented ecosystems: problems and possibilities. By D. A Saunders, -- J. Hobbs and P. REhrlich .305-13 -- Index 315-26.
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