Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

John A. Wiens 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 07월 09일 출간

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In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to employ historical ecology effectively.Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management and conservation context and the development of concepts related to understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and insights to all those entrusted with managing and conserving natural resources: land-use planners, ecologists, fire scientists, natural resource policy makers, conservation biologists, refuge and preserve managers, and field practitioners. The book will be particularly timely as science-based management is once again emphasized in United States federal land management and as an understanding of the potential effects of climate change becomes more widespread among resource managers.Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/wiens/historicalenvironmentalvariation.

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Contributors, viiForeword, xPreface, xiiAcknowledgments, xivSECTION 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, 1JOHN A. WIENS1 Setting the stage: theoretical and conceptual background of historical range of variation, 3WILLIAM H. ROMME, JOHN A. WIENS, AND HUGH D. SAFFORD2 Development of historical ecology concepts and their application to resource management and conservation, 19WAYNE PADGETT, BARBARA SCHRADER, MARY MANNING, AND TIMOTHY TEARSECTION 2 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES, 29HUGH D. SAFFORD3 Challenges in the application of historical range of variation to conservation and land management, 32GREGORY D. HAYWARD, THOMAS T. VEBLEN, LOWELL H. SURING, AND BOB DAVIS4 Historical ecology, climate change, and resource management: can the past still inform the future? 46HUGH D. SAFFORD, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, NICOLE E. HELLER, AND JOHN A. WIENS5 What is the scope of "history" in historical ecology? Issues of scale in management and conservation, 63JOHN A. WIENS, HUGH D. SAFFORD, KEVIN MCGARIGAL, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND MARY MANNING6 Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation, 76GREGORY J. NOWACKI, DOUGLAS W. MACCLEERY, AND FRANK K. LAKE7 Conservation and resource management in a changing world: extending historical range of variation beyond the baseline, 92STEPHEN T. JACKSONSECTION 3 MODELING HISTORIC VARIATION AND ITS APPLICATION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUTURE VARIABILITY, 111ROBERT E. KEANE8 Creating historical range of variation (HRV) time series using landscape modeling: overview and issues, 113ROBERT E. KEANE9 Modeling historical range of variability at a range of scales: an example application, 128KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND WILLIAM H. ROMMESECTION 4 CASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS, 147GRE

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"Overall, a very useful reference for advanced students in conservation and ecosystem management as well as researchers and managers developing future adaptation plans.& Summing Up: Highly recommended. &Upper-division undergraduates and above.”& &(Choice, 1 March 2013)

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저자(글) John A. Wiens

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John Wiens is a landscape ecologist and conservation scientist who was on the faculties of several universities in the United States before joining The Nature Conservancy as Chief Scientist in 2002. He has published over 200 scientific papers and six books, and has conducted research in Europe, South America, and Australia as well as the United States. He is currently Chief Conservation Science Officer at PRBO Conservation Science in California and is a visiting faculty member at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.Hugh Safford is Regional Ecologist for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region, which includes California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Territories, and a research faculty affiliate with the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis.Greg Hayward, Regional Wildlife Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska is a population ecologist with a passion for helping resource managers understand the trade-offs associated with difficult land management decisions. As a conservation practitioner Greg brings an academic perspective from faculty positions at the University of Idaho and University of Wyoming. Greg's research extends from boreal owls and flying squirrels to Amur tigers and cutthroat trout with a focus on the consequences of broad scale ecological disturbance on wildlife dynamics.