Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Prevailing Contrasts in the Status of Forested Biodiversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. The importance of disturbance and land-use history in New England: implications for forested landscapes and wildlife conservation

      • Richard M. DeGraaf, Ronald I. Miller

      Pages 3-35

   3. Changes in global forest distribution

      • David B. Kittredge Jr

      Pages 37-60

   4. The status of forested wetlands and waterbird conservation in North and Central America

      • R. Michael Erwin

      Pages 61-109

   5. Modern forestry and the capercaillie

      • Kjell Sjöberg

      Pages 111-135

   6. Conservation of large forest carnivores

      • Todd K. Fuller, David B. Kittredge Jr

      Pages 137-164

3. Habitat Change and Wildlife Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-166

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   2. Forest raptor population trends in North America

      • Mark R. Fuller

      Pages 167-208

   3. Bird community dynamics in boreal forests

      • Pekka Helle, Gerald J. Niemi

      Pages 209-234

   4. The impact of forestry on ungulates in Japan

      • Naoki Maruyama, Kunihiko Tokida

      Pages 235-252

   5. Effects of hurricanes on wildlife: implications and strategies for management

      • Joseph M. Wunderle Jr, James W. Wiley

      Pages 253-264

   6. Trends in the moose—forest system in Fennoscandia, with special reference to Sweden

      • Göran Cederlund, Roger Bergström

      Pages 265-281

4. Effective Conservation Tools and Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-285

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   2. The ghost of forest past — natural disturbance regimes as a basis for reconstruction of biologically diverse forests in Europe

      • Per Angelstam

      Pages 287-337

   3. Conservation and management of eucalypt forest vertebrates

      • Harry F. Recher

      Pages 339-388

   4. The importance of forest for the world’s migratory bird species

      • John H. Rappole

      Pages 389-406

   5. Wildlife habitat evaluation in forested ecosystems: some examples from Canada and the United States

      • Paul A. Gray, Duncan Cameron, Ian Kirkham

      Pages 407-536

   6. The ‘spatial solution’ to conserving biodiversity in landscapes and regions

      • Richard T. T. Forman, Sharon K. Collinge

      Pages 537-568

   7. Ecosearch: a new paradigm for evaluating the utility of wildlife habitat

      • Henry L. Short, Jay B. Hestbeck, Ralph W. Tiner

      Pages 569-594

Forest wildlife conservation is critically required in many parts of the world today. This book presents a merger between the elements of wildlife conservation and habitat conservation, and explains how these disciplines can be used to promote the conservation of vertebrates in forests around the world.

• Fauna
• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• forest
• wetland

This book focuses on changing forests worldwide, bringing together the knowledge of conservation scientists on the influence of environmental change on forest fauna. - CAB Abstracts; This book highlights the status of key vertebrates inhabiting the world's forests and the past and current effects that environment change exerts upon these populations. - Natural Areas Journal; ...it is up-to-date and dynamic in its approach and offers many suggestions about how things might be approached. This is a useful and timely book and will be well recieved by both ecologists and forest management practitioners. - Journal of Animal Ecology.

• USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experimental Station, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Richard M. DeGraaf

• Pioneer Geographic Designs, Northampton, USA

  Ronald I. Miller

Ronald I. Miller was Senior Officer in the Species Mapping Section of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK, and is now New England Gap Analysis Research Consultant, Amherst Massachusetts, having also worked for the World Bank and the Nature Conservancy.

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