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Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes - Multiple Use and Sustainable Management (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes - Multiple Use and Sustainable Management (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial
configuration - the pattern - of forest landscapes affect many
ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of
particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances
such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter
and nutrients. Understanding these issues is key to the successful
management of complex, multifunctional forest landscapes, and
landscape ecology, based on a foundation of island bio-geography
and meta-population dynamic theories, provides the rationale to
deal with this pattern-to-process interaction at different spatial
and temporal scales. This carefully edited volume represents a
stimulating addition to the international literature on landscape
ecology and resource management. It provides key insights into some
of the applicable landscape ecological theories that underlie
forest management, with a specific focus on how forest management
can benefit from landscape ecology, and how landscape ecology can
be advanced by tackling challenging problems in forest (landscape)
management. It also presents a series of case studies from Europe,
Asia, North America, Africa and Australia exploring the issues of
disturbance, diversity, management, and scale, and with a specific
focus on how human intervention affects forest landscapes and, in
turn, how landscapes influence humans and their culture. An
important reference for advanced students and researchers in
landscape ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, natural
resource management and ecology across multiple scales, the book
will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in reserve
design, ecological restoration, forest management, landscape
planning and landscape architecture.
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