Conserving Forest Biodiversity
A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach
352 pages
8 x 10
Book Description
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 Biodiversity, leading forest scientists David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas. They lay the foundations for such a strategy, bringing together the latest scientific information on landscape ecology, forestry, conservation biology, and related disciplines as they examine:
- the importance of the matrix in key areas of ecology such as metapopulation dynamics, habitat fragmentation, and landscape connectivity
- general principles for matrix management
- using natural disturbance regimes to guide human disturbance
- landscape-level and stand-level elements of matrix management
- the role of adaptive management and monitoring
- social dimensions and tensions in implementing matrix-based forest management
Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of more effective approaches to maintaining forest biodiversity. It examines the key issues and gives practical guidelines for sustained forest management, highlighting the critical role of the matrix for scientists, managers, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders involved in efforts to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forest landscapes.
Contents
PART I. Principles for Biodiversity Conservation in the Matrix
Chapter 1. Critical Roles for the Matrix
Chapter 2. The Matrix and the Major Themes in Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology
Chapter 3. Objectives and Principle s for Developing Comprehensive Plans for Forest Biodiversity Conservation
Chapter 4. Using Information about Natural Forests, Landscapes, and Disturbance Regimes
PART II. Biodiversity Conservation Across Multiple Spatial Scales
Chapter 5. Importance and Limitations of Large Ecological Reserves
Chapter 6. Landscape-Level Considerations with in the Matrix: Protected Habitatat the Patch Level
Chapter 7. Landscape-Level Considerations: Goals for Structures and Habitats, Transport Systems and Distribution of Harvest Units in Space and Time
Chapter 8. Matrix Management in the Harvested Stand
Chapter 9. Revisiting a Multiscaled Approach to Forest Biodiversity Conservation
Chapter 10. Matrix Management in Plantation Landscapes
PART III. Case Studies in Developing Multiscaled Plans for Biodiversity Conservation
Chapter 11. Case Study 1: Northern, California and Mexican Spotted Owls
Chapter 12. Case Study 2: Leadbeater's Possum and Biodiversity Conservation in Mountain Ash Forests
Chapter 13. Case Study 3: The Tumut Fragmentation Experiment
Chapter 14. Case Study 4: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project
Chapter 15. Case Study 5: The Rio Condor Project
PART IV. Adaptive Management and the Human Aspects of Matrix Management
Chapter 16. Adaptive Management and Long-Term Monitoring
Chapter 17. Knowledge Gaps in Forest and Biodiversity Management: Areas for Future Research
Chapter 18. Social and Other Dimensions Associated with Matrix Management
Chapter 19. Future Directions
Literature Cited
About the Authors
Index
