Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach
About this ebook
- the importance of the matrix in key areas of ecology such as metapopulation dynamics, habitat fragmentation, and landscape connectivity
- general principles for matrix management
- using natural disturbance regimes to guide human disturbance
- landscape-level and stand-level elements of matrix management
- the role of adaptive management and monitoring
- social dimensions and tensions in implementing matrix-based forest management
Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of more effective approaches to maintaining forest biodiversity. It examines the key issues and gives practical guidelines for sustained forest management, highlighting the critical role of the matrix for scientists, managers, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders involved in efforts to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forest landscapes.
About the author
David B. Lindenmayer is senior research fellow and associate professor at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at The Australian National University in Canberra.
Jerry F. Franklin is professor of ecosystem science in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle and co-author of Creating a Forestry for the Twenty-First Century (Island Press, 1998).
