Historical environmental variation in conservation and natural resource management /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wiens, John A.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Θέματα: Landscape ecology.; Natural resources > Co-management.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.; NATURE > Natural Resources.; Electronic books.

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The...

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• Front Matter
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• Section 1: Background and History. Part Introduction
• Setting the Stage: Theoretical and Conceptual Background of Historical Range of Variation / William H Romme, John A Wiens, Hugh D Safford
• Development of Historical Ecology Concepts and their Application to Resource Management and Conservation / Wayne Padgett, Barbara Schrader, Mary Manning, Timothy Tear
• Section 2: Issues and Challenges. Part Introduction
• Challenges in the Application of Historical Range of Variation to Conservation and Land Management / Gregory D Hayward, Thomas T Veblen, Lowell H Suring, Bob Davis
• Historical Ecology, Climate Change, and Resource Management: Can the Past Still Inform the Future? / Hugh D Safford, Gregory D Hayward, Nicole E Heller, John A Wiens
• What is the Scope of 3History4 in Historical Ecology? Issues of Scale in Management and Conservation / John A Wiens, Hugh D Safford, Kevin McGarigal, William H Romme, Mary Manning
• Native Americans, Ecosystem Development, and Historical Range of Variation / Gregory J Nowacki, Douglas W MacCleery, Frank K Lake
• Conservation and Resource Management in a Changing World: Extending Historical Range of Variation Beyond the Baseline / Stephen T Jackson
• Section 3: Modeling Historic Variation and Its Application for Understanding Future Variability. Part Introduction
• Creating Historical Range of Variation (HRV) Time Series Using Landscape Modeling: Overview and Issues / Robert E Keane
• Modeling Historical Range of Variability at a Range of Scales: an Example Application / Kevin McGarigal, William H Romme
• Section 4: Case Studies of Applications. Part Introduction
• Regional Application of Historical Ecology at Ecologically Defined Scales: Forest Ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range / Thomas T Veblen, William H Romme, Claudia Regan
• Incorporating Concepts of Historical Range of Variation in Ecosystem-Based Management of British Columbia's Coastal Temperate Rainforest / Andy MacKinnon, Sari C Saunders
• Incorporating HRV in Minnesota National Forest Land and Resource Management Plans: a Practitioner's Story / Mary Shedd, Jim Gallagher, Michael Jim̌nez, Duane Lula
• Applying historical fi re-regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies / Thomas E DeMeo, Frederick J Swanson, Edward B Smith, Steven C Buttrick, Jane Kertis, Jeanne Rice, Christopher D Ringo, Amy Waltz, Chris Zanger, Cheryl A Friesen, John H Cissel
• Using Historical Ecology to Inform Wildlife Conservation, Restoration, and Management / Beth A Hahn, John L Curnutt
• River Floodplain Restoration Experiments Offer a Window into the Past / Ramona O Swenson, Richard J Reiner, Mark Reynolds, Jaymee Marty
• Streams Past and Future: Fluvial Responses to Rapid Environmental Change in the Context of Historical Variation / Daniel A Auerbach, N Leroy Poff, Ryan R McShane, David M Merritt, Matthew I Pyne, Thomas K Wilding
• A Framework for Applying the Historical Range of Variation Concept to Ecosystem Management / William H Romme, Gregory D Hayward, Claudia Regan
• Section 5: Global Perspectives. Part Introduction
• Ecological History Guides the Future of Conservation: Lessons from Africa / A R E Sinclair
• Ecological History has Present and Future Ecological Consequences 6 Case Studies from Australia / David Lindenmayer
• A View from the Past to the Future / Keith J Kirby
• Is the Historical Range of Variation Relevant to Rangeland Management? / Brandon T Bestelmeyer
• Knowing the Fennoscandian Taiga: Ecohistorical Lessons / Yrj̲ Haila
• Section 6: Challenges for the Future. Reflections on the Relevance of History in a Nonstationary World / Julio L Betancourt
• The Growing Importance of the Past in Managing Ecosystems of the Future / Hugh D Safford, John A Wiens, And Gregory D Hayward
• Index.