Binding: Paperback
Description: Ecosystems today are dynamic and complex leaving conservationists faced with the paradox of conserving moving targets. New approaches to conservation are now required that aim to conserve ecological function and process rather than attempt to protect static snapshots of biodiversity. To do this effectively long - term information on ecosystem variability and resilience is needed. While there is a wealth of such information in palaeoecology archaeology and historical ecology it remains an underused resource by conservation ecologists. In bringing together the disciplines of neo - and palaeoecology and integrating them with conservation biology this novel text illustrates how an understanding of long - term change in ecosystems can in turn inform and influence their conservation and management in the Anthropocene. By looking at the history of traditional management climate change disturbance and land - use the book describes how a long - term perspective on landscape change can inform current and pressing conservation questions such as whether elephants should be culled how best to manage fire and whether ecosystems can or should be "re - wilded" Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Change is suitable for senior undergraduate and post - graduate students in conservation ecology palaeoecology biodiversity conservation landscape ecology environmental change and natural resource management. It will also be of relevance and use to a global market of conservation practitioners researchers educators and policy - makers.
Title: Biodiversity Conservation And Environmental Change Using Palaeoecology To Manage Dynamic Landscapes In The Anthropocene
Author(s): Gillson Lindsey (Associate Professor Plant Conservation Unit Associate Professor Plant Conservation Unit Department Of Biological Sciences University Of Cape Town)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198713043
Pages: 230 Pages
Publication Date: 6/15/2015
Category: Conservation Of The Environment