Ecological Bulletins, Bulletin 51, Targets and Tools for the Maintenance of Forest BiodiversityISBN: 978-1-4051-1774-6
Hardcover
512 pages
May 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Maintaining forest biodiversity by combining protection,
management and restoration of forest and woodland landscapes is a
central component of sustainable development.
- Evidence that there are threshold levels for how much habitat loss may be tolerated for viable populations of specialised species to be maintained.
- Policy-makers, businesses and managers pose questions about how to balance use of renewable forest resources and conserve biodiversity.
- Examples are presented on how biodiversity assessments can be made.
- Proposes how the critical gaps in our knowledge identified throughout the book could be filled through macroecological research and international co-operation.