Forestry and Biodiversity: Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests

ISBN-13: 9780774815307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 374 str.

Dr Wayne V. McIntosh; Cynthia L. Cates

Opis

Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain much of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable resources with a potentially small ecological and carbon footprint. Yet as global demand for forest products increases, conserving biodiversity has become more urgent and challenging.Forestry and Biodiversity makes the case for adaptive management--a structural approach to learning by doing--to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It draws on the theory and principles of conservation biology and forest ecology and illustrates them, and the challenges they pose, through a practical, real-world study of a 1.1 million hectare commercial operation i a coastal temporate rainforest.