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Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Hawksworth, David Leslie

Hardcover

Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, Book 10

BiologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 9048138442
ISBN13: 9789048138449
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 11 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of biodiversity. The topics addressed include: lessons from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity, community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the protection of tree diversity, reserves and the reduction of deforestation rates in dry tropical forests, reconciling forest conservation actions with usage by and needs of local peoples, weed invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests, problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across elevations.

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