While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused
primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands
surrounding those areas-the "matrix"-are equally important to
preserving global biodiversity & 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
latestscientific 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
In addition, they present five case studies that illustrate
aspects and elements of applied matrix management in forests. The
case studies cover a wide variety of conservation planning and
management issues from North America, South America, and Australia,
ranging from relatively intact forest ecosystems to an intensively
managed plantation.
Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing
matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of
more effectiveapproaches 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.
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