Assessment of Biodiversity for Improved Forest Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. International Cooperatives on Monitoring Forest Biodiversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Achieving Global and Regional Perspectives on Forest Biodiversity and Conservation

      • V. Kapos, S. F. Iremonger

      Pages 3-13

   3. Measuring and Monitoring Forest Biodiversity: The SI/MAB Model

      • Francisco Dallmeier

      Pages 15-29

   4. Needs and Prospects for International Co-Operation in Assessing Forest Biodiversity: An Overview from WWF

      • Nigel Dudley, Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud

      Pages 31-41

   5. UNEP’s Global Biodiversity Assessment

      • Sipi Jaakkola

      Pages 43-50

3. Information Needs, Economic and Policy Consequences of Biodiversity Oriented Forest Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Biodiversity Protection and Forest Management — Some Economic and Policy Aspects

      • Birger Solberg

      Pages 53-62

   3. Information Needs for Biodiversity Assessment Derived from International Forestry Discussions

      • Jari Parviainen, Risto Päivinen

      Pages 63-70

   4. Biodiversity: A Diversity in Definition

      • M. Kaennel

      Pages 71-81

   5. Biodiversity and Forestry in Poland

      • Malgorzata Falencka-Jablonska

      Pages 83-89

   6. The Approach of the British Forestry Commission to the Conservation of Forest Biodiversity

      • S. J. Hodge, G. Patterson, R. Mcintosh

      Pages 91-101

   7. Biodiversity Information Needs in Finland: A Questionnaire

      • Tiina Tonteri

      Pages 103-110

   8. Shadow Pricing Trade-Offs between Timber Supply and Environmental Quality

      • Dietmar W. Rose, Syed A. Husain

      Pages 111-119

4. Quantification of Forest Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Optimizing the Management of Uneven-Aged Spruce-Fir Stands While Preserving Structural Diversity

      • Jeffrey H. Gove

      Pages 123-134

   3. Multiscale Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Breeding Bird Species Richness Using the Echelon Approach

      • Glen Johnson, Wayne Myers, Ganapati Patil, David Walrath

      Pages 135-150

   4. Using Covariate-Species Community Dissimilarity to Guide Sampling for Estimating Breeding Bird Species Richness

      • Glen Johnson, Ganapati Patil, Sonia Rodríquez

      Pages 151-158

   5. Some Mathematical Remarks on Forest Biodiversity

      • Alain Franc

      Pages 159-169

   6. Putting Diversity Indices into Practice

      • M. J. J. Heusèrr

      Pages 171-180

The `Global Biodiversity Strategy' signed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and the resolutions at the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe in Strasbourg, 1990, and Helsinki, 1993, commit the signatory states to monitor nationally the state of biodiversity and to sustain the characteristic natural variation in the country. Sustainability and long-term planning are the two terms best describing the philosophy of traditional forest management practices. However, the traditional planning techniques are not primarily developed to maintain sustainability of biodiversity.
The gap between the international commitments and the practices in forest assessment and management is obvious. This publication presents experience in methodology for assessing and monitoring the variation of ecosystems and habitats in relation to biodiversity conservation and for integrating biodiversity in regional planning of forest management and land use. The state of the art in the field of natural resource assessments with special reference to forest biodiversity is reviewed, progress in integrating data on biodiversity in forest management planning is presented and the information needs regarding biodiversity conservation and the question to what degree assessment methods for forest biodiversity can be simplified for practical applications are discussed.
The book is intended for researchers and practitioners in the field of forest and environmental planning and environmental policies.

• Forestry
• biodiversity
• forest
• rose
• sustainability

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland

  Peter Bachmann

• Dresden University of Technology, Tharandt, Germany

  Michael Köhl

• European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland

  Risto Päivinen

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