Repairing Damaged Wildlands: A Process-Orientated, Landscape-Scale Approach (Biological Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainability, Series Number 1) - Softcover

Whisenant, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052166540X ISBN 13: 9780521665407

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The unique approach to ecological restoration described in this book will appeal to anyone interested in improving the ecological conditions, biological diversity, or productivity of damaged wildlands. Using sound ecological principles, the author describes how these ecosystems are stabilized and directed toward realistic management objectives using natural recovery processes rather than expensive subsidies. An initial emphasis on repairing water and nutrient cycles, and increasing energy capture, will initiate and direct positive feedback repair systems that drive continuing autogenic recovery. This strategy is most appropriate where landuse goals call for low-input, sustainable vegetation managed for biological diversity, livestock production, timber production, wildlife habitat, watershed management, or ecosystem services. No other book provides such a comprehensive strategy for the ecological restoration of any wildland ecosystem, making this an invaluable resource for professionals working in the fields of ecological restoration, conservation biology and rangeland management.

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Book Description

The unique approach to ecological restoration described in this book will appeal to anyone interested in improving the ecological conditions, biological diversity, or productivity of damaged wildlands. Sound ecological principles are used to initiate and direct natural recovery processes. The emphasis is on repairing water and nutrient cycles, increasing energy capture, and redirecting successional processes. No other book provides such a comprehensive strategy for the ecological restoration of any wildland ecosystem, making this an invaluable resource for professionals and students in the fields of ecological restoration, conservation biology and rangeland management.

Review

"An impressive command of the literature on this increasingly important subject." Northeastern Naturalist

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052166540X
• ISBN 13: 9780521665407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328