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Forest landscapes and global change: Challenges for research and management
Climate change, urban sprawl, abandonment of agriculture, intensifi cation of forestry
and agriculture, changes in energy generation and use, expansion of infrastructure
networks, habitat destruction and degradation, and other drivers and pressures
of change are occurring at increasing rates globally. They affect ecological patterns
and processes in forest landscapes and modify ecosystem services derived from
those ecosystems. Consequently, the landscapes that are rapidly changing in
response to these pressures present many new challenges to scientists and managers.
Although it is not uncommon to encounter the terms “global change” and “landscape”
together in the ecological literature, there has been no adequate global analysis of
drivers of change in forest landscapes and their ecological consequences. Providing
such an analysis is the goal of this volume: an exploration of the state of knowledge
of global changes in forested landscapes, with an emphasis on their causes and
effects, and the challenges faced by researchers and land managers who must cope
with these changes.
This book was based on the IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Group
International Conference that took place in Bragança, Portugal, in September 2010
under the theme “Forest Landscapes and Global Change: New Frontiers in
Management, Conservation and Restoration”. The event brought together more
than 300 landscape ecologists from almost 50 countries and 5 continents, who came
to expand their knowledge and awareness of global changes in forest landscapes.
We hope that the syntheses in this book, prepared by a diverse group of scientists
who participated in the conference, will enhance the global understanding of a
range of topics relevant to change in forest landscapes and stimulate new research
to answer the questions raised by these authors.
First, we introduce the broad topic of forest landscape ecology and global change.
This is followed by chapters that identify and describe major agents of landscape
change: climate (Iverson et al.), wildfi re (Rego and Silva), and human activities
(Farinaci et al.). The next chapters address implications of change for ecosystem
services (Marta-Pedroso et al.), carbon fl uxes (Chen et al.), and biodiversity conservation
(Saura et al.). A subsequent chapter describes methodologies for detecting
and monitoring landscape changes (GĂłmez-Sanz et al.) and is followed by a chapter that highlights the many challenges facing forest landscape managers amidst global
change (Coulson et al.). Finally, we present a summary and a synthesis of the main
points presented in the book (Azevedo et al.). Each chapter was inspired by the
research experience of the authors, augmented by a review and synthesis of the
global scientifi c literature on relevant topics, as well as critical input from multiple
peer reviewers.
The intended audience for this book includes graduate students, educators, and
researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, and forestry, as well as
land-use planners and managers. We trust that the wide range of topics, addressed
from a global perspective by a geographically diverse group of contributing authors
from Europe, North America, and South America, will make this volume attractive
to a broad readership.We gratefully acknowledge the following peer reviewers who helped improve
the content of this book: Berta MartĂn, Bill Hargrove, Bob Keane, Colin Beier, Don
McKenzie, Eric Gustafson, Franz Gatzweiler, Geoff Henebry, Kurt Riitters, Maria
Esther Núñez, Michael Ter-Mikaelian, Tom Nudds, and Yolanda Wiersma. As well,
we thank Geoff Hart for assistance with editing and Janet Slobodien and Zachary
Romano for assistance with publishing.
We also thank FCT (the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal),
CIMO (the Mountain Research Centre, Portugal), and IPB (the Polytechnic Institute
of Bragança, Portugal) for their support during the preparation of this volume.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Dipterocarps protected by Jering local wisdom in Jering Menduyung Nature Recreational Park, Bangka Island, Indonesia
Apart of the oil palm plantation expansion, the Jering Menduyung Nature Recreational Park has relatively diverse plants. The 3,538 ha park is located at the north west of Bangka Island, Indonesia. The minimum species-area curve was 0.82 ha which is just below Dalil conservation forest that is 1.2 ha, but it is much higher than measurements of several secondary forests in the Island that are 0.2 ha. The plot is inhabited by more than 50 plant species. Of 22 tree species, there are 40 individual poles with the average diameter of 15.3 cm, and 64 individual trees with the average diameter of 48.9 cm. The density of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus (Blanco) Blanco or kruing, is 20.7 individual/ha with the diameter ranges of 12.1 – 212.7 cm or with the average diameter of 69.0 cm. The relatively intact park is supported by the local wisdom of Jering tribe, one of indigenous tribes in the island. People has regulated in cutting trees especially in the cape. The conservation agency designates the park as one of the kruing propagules sources in the province. The growing oil palm plantation and the less adoption of local wisdom among the youth is a challenge to forest conservation in the province where tin mining activities have been the economic driver for decades. More socialization from the conservation agency and the involvement of university students in raising environmental awareness is important to be done
Background Examples of Literature Searches on Topics of Interest
A zip file of various literature searches & some resources related to our work related to exposure after the Chernobyl accident and as we began looking at helping in Semey Kazakhstan----a collection of literature reviews on various topics we were interested in... eg. establishing a registry of those exposed for longterm follow-up, what we knew about certain areas like genetics and some resources like A Guide to Environmental Resources on the Internet by Carol Briggs-Erickson and Toni Murphy which could be found on the Internet and was written to be used by researchers, environmentalists, teachers and any person who is interested in knowing and doing something about the health of our planet. See more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/dm-ms211-012-0060
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The Geosciences Research Program is directed by the Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) Office of Energy Research (OER) through its Office of Basic Energy Sciences (OBES). Activities in the Geosciences Research Program are directed toward building the long-term fundamental knowledge base necessary to provide for energy technologies of the future. Future energy technologies and their individual roles in satisfying the nations energy needs cannot be easily predicted. It is clear, however, that these future energy technologies will involve consumption of energy and mineral resources and generation of technological wastes. The earth is a source for energy and mineral resources and is also the host for wastes generated by technological enterprise. Viable energy technologies for the future must contribute to a national energy enterprise that is efficient, economical, and environmentally sound. The Geosciences Research Program emphasizes research leading to fundamental knowledge of the processes that transport, modify, concentrate, and emplace (1) the energy and mineral resources of the earth and (2) the energy by-products of man
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