书目名称 | Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity? |
编辑 | Eckehard G. Brockerhoff,Hervé Jactel,David L. Hawk |
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概述 | Draws together a wide range of peer-reviewed primary research papers from biodiversity researchers around the world.Provides examples from a wide spectrum of issues representing the current state of t |
丛书名称 | Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation |
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描述 | 1 Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity? Forests form the natural vegetation over much of the Earth’s land, and they are critical for the survival of innumerable organisms. The ongoing loss of natural forests, which in some regions may have taken many millennia to develop, is one of the main reasons for the decline of biodiversity. Preventing the further destruction of forests and protecting species and ecosystems within forests have become central issues for environmental agencies, forest managers, and gove- ments. In this di?cult task science has an important role in informing policy and management as to how to go about this. So how do industrial and other pl- tation forests ?t into this? Plantation forests, comprised of rows of planted trees that may be destined for pulp or sawmills after only a few years of growth, appear to have little to c- tribute to the conservation of biodiversity. Yet there is more to this than meets the eye (of the casual observer), and there are indeed numerous opportunities, and often untapped potential, for biodiversity conservation in plantation forestry. With plantation forests expanding at a rate of approximately three millio |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Afforestation; Biodiversity conservation; Conservation biology; Forest management; Landscape ecology; Pla |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2807-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-3685-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2807-5Series ISSN 1875-1288 Series E-ISSN 1875-1296 |
issn_series | 1875-1288 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |