Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes

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 wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: DeGraaf, R.M. (Editor), Miller, R.I. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Conservation Biology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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