Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public PolicyIsland Press, 05.03.2013 - 323 Seiten Wild Forests presents a coherent review of the scientific and policy issues surrounding biological diversity in the context of contemporary public forest management. The authors examine past and current practices of forest management and provide a comprehensive overview of known and suspected threats to diversity. In addition to discussing general ecological principles, the authors evaluate specific approaches to forest management that have been proposed to ameliorate diversity losses. They present one such policy -- the Dominant Use Zoning Model incorporating an integrated network of "Diversity Maintenance Areas" -- and describe their attempts to persuade the U.S. Forest Service to adopt such a policy in Wisconsin. Drawing on experience in the field, in negotiations, and in court, the authors analyze the ways in which federal agencies are coping with the mandates of conservation biology and suggest reforms that could better address these important issues. Throughout, they argue that wild or unengineered conditions are those that are most likely to foster a return to the species richness that we once enjoyed. |
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... communities Fig. 4-2. Relationship between fidelity and abundance for the same Wisconsin ground layer plant species as in Fig. 4-1 Fig. 4-3. Frequency histogram of windthrow sizes in forests of northern Wisconsin Fig. 4-4. The scales of ...
... communities. In Part II we review some of what is known regarding how ecological systems gain and lose diversity. Many of these threats revolve around disruption of historical patterns of disturbance (Chapter 4). Other threats derive ...
... communities, and optimal forest management will be useless if they are not applied. Thus, we consider it essential to devote Part IV to questions of policy and implementation. Chapter 12 explores key aspects of Forest Service policy ...
... communities. Finally, we consider how the original primary forests differ from the secondary forests that succeeded them and the prospects this presents for restoring old-growth forests. Readers interested in further information on the ...
... communities of North America repeatedly over the past two million years. Climatic oscillations brought glaciers from the North and dry winds from the Southwest. These shifts apparently occurred slowly enough for most plant and animal ...
Inhalt
Ecological Mechanisms and Biotic Resources | 35 |
Approaches to Forest Managment | 117 |
Toward a New Diversity Policy and TwentyFirst Century Old Growth | 179 |
First Postscript | 257 |
References | 259 |
Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms | 287 |
Species List | 291 |
Index | 293 |
Island Press Board of Directors 1994 | 301 |