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Conserving forest biodiversity : a comprehensive multiscaled approach /

Annotation While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area--the "matrix"--Are equally important to preserving global biodiversity and maintaining forest health. In Conserving Forest Biodive...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindenmayer, David
Otros Autores: Franklin, Jerry F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Island Press, ©2002.
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  • 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 distribance 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 muliscaled 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.