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Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Richard M. DeGraaf

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

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  2. Ronald I. Miller

    1. Pioneer Geographic Designs, Northampton, USA

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Part of the book series: Conservation Biology (COBI, volume 6)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Reviews

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Richard M. DeGraaf

  • Pioneer Geographic Designs, Northampton, USA

    Ronald I. Miller

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes

  • Editors: Richard M. DeGraaf, Ronald I. Miller

  • Series Title: Conservation Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1521-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Chapman & Hall 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-61890-1Published: 30 September 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7180-2Published: 15 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1521-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 634

  • Topics: Nature Conservation, Forestry, Ecology, Zoology

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