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Linkages in the Landscape
Author | : Andrew F. Bennett |
Publsiher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Corridors |
ISBN | : 9782831707440 |
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The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy. Examples are given of corridors both as pathways and as habitats in their own right. Includes detailed reviews of principles relevant to the design and management of corridors, their place in regional approaches to conservation planning, and recommendations for research and management.
Linkages in Practice
Author | : Graham Bennett |
Publsiher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Corridors (Ecology) |
ISBN | : 2831707749 |
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Until well into recent times, a high level of connectivity existed among ecosystems. Through the ever-increasing extent and intensity of human exploitation of natural resources, however, the pattern of human activities as islands in a sea of nature has become reversed in most of the world's regions. Habitat fragmentation is now one of the most important causes of the decline in biodiversity. The main purpose of this review is to assist the understanding of the practical value of maintaining, enhancing, creating or restoring linkages.
The Role of Corridors
Author | : Denis A. Saunders,Richard J. Hobbs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D019181963 |
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Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity
Author | : Lisa Defenders of Wildlife |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991-10-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1559631090 |
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In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.
Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation
Author | : Kevin Gutzwiller |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2011-06-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781461300595 |
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This book provides a current synthesis of principles and applications in landscape ecology and conservation biology. Bringing together insights from leaders in landscape ecology and conservation biology, it explains how principles of landscape ecology can help us understand, manage and maintain biodiversity. Gutzwiller also identifies gaps in current knowledge and provides research approaches to fill those voids.
Corridor Ecology
Author | : Jodi A. Hilty,William Z. Lidicker Jr.,Adina M. Merenlender |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597265935 |
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Corridor Ecology presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas with an overarching goal of conserving biodiversity. It offers an objective, carefully interpreted review of the issues and is a one-of-a-kind resource for scientists, landscape architects, planners, land managers, decision-makers, and all those working to protect and restore landscapes and species diversity.
Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change
Author | : David B. Lindenmayer,Joern Fischer |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597266062 |
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Habitat loss and degradation that comes as a result of human activity is the single biggest threat to biodiversity in the world today. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change is a groundbreaking work that brings together a wealth of information from a wide range of sources to define the ecological problems caused by landscape change and to highlight the relationships among landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation. The book: synthesizes a large body of information from the scientific literature considers key theoretical principles for examining and predicting effects examines the range of effects that can arise explores ways of mitigating impacts reviews approaches to studying the problem discusses knowledge gaps and future areas for research and management Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change offers a unique mix of theoretical and practical information, outlining general principles and approaches and illustrating those principles with case studies from around the world. It represents a definitive overview and synthesis on the full range of topics that fall under the widely used but often vaguely defined term "habitat fragmentation."
Landscape Boundaries
Author | : Andrew J. Hansen,Francesco DiCastri |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781461228042 |
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The emergence of landscape ecology during the 1980s represents an impor tant maturation of ecological theory. Once enamored with the conceptual beauty of well-balanced, homogeneous ecosystems, ecologists now assert that much of the essence of ecological systems lies in their lumpiness. Patches with differing properties and behaviors lie strewn across the land scape, products of the complex interactions of climate, disturbance, and biotic processes. It is the collective behavior of this patchwork of eco systems that drives pattern and process of the landscape. is not an end point This realization of the importance of patch dynamics in itself, however. Rather, it is a passage to a new conceptual framework, the internal workings of which remain obscure. The next tier of questions includes: What are the fundamental pieces that compose a landscape? How are these pieces bounded? To what extent do these boundaries influence communication and interaction among patches of the landscape? Will con sideration of the interactions among landscape elements help us to under stand the workings of landscapes? At the core of these questions lies the notion of the ecotone, a term with a lineage that even predates ecosystem. Late in the nineteenth century, F. E. Clements realized that the transition zones between plant communi ties had properties distinct from either of the adjacent communities. Not until the emergence of patch dynamics theory, however, has central signif icance of the ecotone concept become apparent.