Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes

by R.M. DeGraaf (Editor), R.I. Miller (Editor)

Overview

Forest wildlife conservation is critically required in many parts of the world today. This book presents a merger between the elements of wildlife conservation and habitat conservation, and explains how these disciplines can be used to promote the conservation of vertebrates in forests around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412618901
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/1996
Series:	Conservation Biology , #6
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	634
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ronald I. Miller was Senior Officer in the Species Mapping Section of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK, and is now New England Gap Analysis Research Consultant, Amherst Massachusetts, having also worked for the World Bank and the Nature Conservancy.

Table of Contents

One Prevailing Contrasts in the Status of Forested Biodiversity.- 1 The importance of disturbance and land-use history in New England: implications for forested landscapes and wildlife conservation.- 2 Changes in global forest distribution.- 3 The status of forested wetlands and waterbird conservation in North and Central America.- 4 Modern forestry and the capercaillie.- 5 Conservation of large forest carnivores.- Two Habitat Change and Wildlife Responses.- 6 Forest raptor population trends in North America.- 7 Bird community dynamics in boreal forests.- 8 The impact of forestry on ungulates in Japan.- 9 Effects of hurricanes on wildlife: implications and strategies for management.- 10 Trends in moose-forest system in Fennoscandia, with special reference to Sweden.- Three Effective Conservation Tools and Strategies.- 11 The ghost of forest past — natural disturbance regimes as a basis for reconstruction of biologically diverse forests in Europe.- 12 Conservation and management of eucalypt forest vertebrates.- 13 The importance of forest for the world’s migratory bird species.- 14 Wildlife habitat evaluation in forested ecosystems: some examples from Canada and the United States.- 15 The ‘spatial solution’ to conserving biodiversity in landscapes and regions.- 16 Ecosearch: a new paradigm for evaluating the utility of wildlife habitat.- 17 Modern approaches to monitoring changes in forests using maps.- Some conclusions.- Species index.

Editorial Reviews

This book focuses on changing forests worldwide, bringing together the knowledge of conservation scientists on the influence of environmental change on forest fauna. - CAB Abstracts; This book highlights the status of key vertebrates inhabiting the world's forests and the past and current effects that environment change exerts upon these populations. - Natural Areas Journal; ...it is up-to-date and dynamic in its approach and offers many suggestions about how things might be approached. This is a useful and timely book and will be well recieved by both ecologists and forest management practitioners. - Journal of Animal Ecology.

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