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The Science of Conservation Planning
Habitat Conservation Under The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Broad-scale conservation of habitats is increasingly being recognized as a more effective means of protecting species and landscapes than single-species preservation efforts. While interest in the approach has grown tremendously in recyears, it remains controversial and the science behind it has yet...
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint
A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance...
Conserving Forest Biodiversity
A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
While mefforts 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 Biodiversity, leading forest scientists...
Old Fields
Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Land abandonmis increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fields” that result from abandonmhave been the subject of much study, yet few...
Saving Nature's Legacy
Protecting And Restoring Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land managemand conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles,...
Nature Out of Place
Biological Invasions In The Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions is changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, tightly integrated webs of native species to loose assemblages of stressed native species and aggressive invaders. The earth is becoming what...
by J. Michael Scott, Michael E. Soulé, Keith Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the mdiverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.
Wild Forests
Conservation Biology And Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Wild Forests presents a coherreview of the scientific and policy issues surrounding biological diversity in the context of contemporary public forest management. The authors examine past and currpractices of forest managemand provide a comprehensive overview of known and suspected threats to diversity....
Conservation by Proxy
Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species-known by a host of different terms, including indicator, umbrella, and flagship species-act as proxies to represent larger conservation...
The Freshwater Imperative
A Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This volume summarizes the two-year effort of a working group of leading aquatic scientists sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA, TVA, and NOAA to identify research opportunities and frontiers in freshwater sciences for this decade and beyond. The research agenda outlined focuses on issues of water availability,...
People, Forests, and Change
Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for granted. As urban boundaries expand and rural...
by Jeffrey A. McNeely
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Protected areas around the globe national parks, wildlife reserves, biosphere reserves will prosper only if they are supported by the public, the private sector, and the full range of governmagencies. Yet such support is unlikely unless society appreciates the importance of protected areas to its...
Our Common Lands
Defending The National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This accessible book explains the complexities of key environmental laws and how they can be used to protect our national parks. It includes discussions of successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the laws and how the courts have interpreted them.
Conservation Through Cultural Survival
Indigenous Peoples And Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For more than a century the establishmof national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems...