Setting Conservation Targets for Managed Forest Landscapes

by Edited by Marc-André Villard , Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

• ISBN13: 9780521700726
• ISBN10: 0521700728
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Forests host a disproportionate share of the world's biodiversity. They are increasingly being seen as a refuge for genetic diversity, native species, natural structures, and ecological processes. Yet, intensive forestry threatens their value for biodiversity. The authors present concepts, approaches and case studies illustrating how biodiversity conservation can be integrated into forest management planning. They address ecological patterns and processes taking place at the scale of landscapes, or forest mosaics. This book is intended for students and researchers in conservation biology and natural resource management, as well as forest land managers and policy makers. It presents examples from many forest regions and a variety of organisms. With contributions from researchers that are familiar with forest management and forest managers working in partnership with researchers, this book provides insight and concrete tools to help shape the future of forest landscapes worldwide.

Table of Contents

A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation

Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches Bengt

Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges

Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning using data on Andean amphibians

Selecting biodiversity indiators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?

Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets

Bridging ecosystem and multiple-species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes

Thresholds, incidence functions and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south eastern Australia

Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?

The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests Bengt

Opportunities and constraints of using understorey plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities

Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments

Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species

Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach

Forest landscape modelling as a tool to develop conservation targets

Setting targets: trade-offs between ecology and economy Mikko M÷nkkonen

Setting implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study

Putting conservation target science to work

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