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Monitoring forest biodiversity : improving conservation through ecologically responsible management /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gardner, Toby
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Colección:Earthscan forest library.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biodiversity conservation in human-modified and managed forests
  • The origins and development of ecologically responsible forest management
  • The need for forest biodiversity monitoring
  • A typology of approaches and indicators for monitoring forest biodiversity
  • Challenges to monitoring: problems of purpose
  • Challenges to monitoring: problems of design
  • Challenges to monitoring: problems of reality
  • Clarifying purpose: an operational framework for monitoring forest biodiversity
  • Setting conservation goals for biodiversity monitoring
  • Setting objectives for biodiversity monitoring
  • Selecting indicators of forest structure to assess management performance
  • Selecting biological indicators and target species to evaluate progress towards conservation goals
  • Making assumptions explicit: the value of conceptual modelling in biodiversity monitoring
  • Sampling design and data collection in biodiversity monitoring
  • Analysis and interpretation of biodiversity data
  • Putting forest biodiversity monitoring to work.