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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... edge habitats in the Pacific Northwest Fig. 5-2. Conceptual diagrams of edge effects Fig. 5-3. Newly created edge between old growth and clearcut in northern Wisconsin Fig. 6-1. Species–area relations for pomerine ants on mainland ...
... edge habitats boost populations of many weedy plants and animals, including edge-loving herbivores, predators, and parasites that threaten the persistence of species usually found in forest-interior habitats (Chapter 5). In Chapter 6 we ...
... edge and open habitats. Changes. in. Wildlife. Hunting and trapping followed the influx of European settlers, quickly depleting populations of predators, fur bearers, and the larger game species. Woodland bison and elk were extirpated by ...
... habitat that support many other species. In contrast to the declines of most large mammals, rodents like the ... edge species increased greatly in abundance (see Terborgh 1989; Chapter 5). Once scarce opportunistic predators like ...
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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 |