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Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity? (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity? (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, 9
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1 Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity?
Forests form the natural vegetation over much of the Earth's land,
and they are critical for the survival of innumerable organisms.
The ongoing loss of natural forests, which in some regions may have
taken many millennia to develop, is one of the main reasons for the
decline of biodiversity. Preventing the further destruction of
forests and protecting species and ecosystems within forests have
become central issues for environmental agencies, forest managers,
and gove- ments. In this di?cult task science has an important role
in informing policy and management as to how to go about this. So
how do industrial and other pl- tation forests 't into this?
Plantation forests, comprised of rows of planted trees that may be
destined for pulp or sawmills after only a few years of growth,
appear to have little to c- tribute to the conservation of
biodiversity. Yet there is more to this than meets the eye (of the
casual observer), and there are indeed numerous opportunities, and
often untapped potential, for biodiversity conservation in
plantation forestry. With plantation forests expanding at a rate of
approximately three million hectares per year, it is crucial to
understand how plantations can make a positive contribution to
biodiversity conservation and how the potentially negative impacts
of this land use can be minimised. That is the topic of this book.
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