Plant conservation : the role of habitat restoration /
Sergei Volis.
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xvi, 480 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Mar 2019).. - Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What Plant Conservation is About and Why Biodiversity Should be Conserved -- 1.2 The Old Concept -- 1.3 New Challenges and Two Alternative Solutions -- 1.4 A Proposed Concept to Tackle New Challenges -- 2 The Concept's Major Principles -- 2.1 Setting the Scene -- 2.2 Active Intervention -- 2.3 Considering Local Adaptation -- 2.4 Considering Climate Change Effects -- 2.5 Assisted Colonization -- 2.6 Experimentation -- 2.7 Restoration of Threatened Species Habitats -- 2.8 Utilization of Threatened Species in Restoration -- 2.9 Integration of Ex Situ and In Situ Strategies -- 2.10 Legislation Allowing Active Interventions -- 3 Restoration of Threatened Species -- 3.1 Regional Base -- 3.2 Population Demographic Survey and Identification of a Threat -- 3.3 Prioritizing Species -- 3.4 Reserve Design -- 3.4.1 Area Selection -- 3.4.2 Minimum Reserve Size -- 3.5 Genetic Considerations: Adaptive Versus Neutral Intraspecific Divergence -- 3.6 Seed Sourcing and Collecting -- 3.6.1 Sampling Design for Ex Situ Conservation -- 3.6.2 Seed Sources for In Situ Introduction -- 3.6.3 Sampling Protocol -- 3.7 Ex Situ: Seed Banks -- 3.8 Ex Situ: Living Collections in Botanic Gardens -- 3.8.1 Conservation Potential of Botanic Gardens and Their Limitations -- 3.8.2 How to Improve the Conservation Utility of Botanic Garden Living Collections? -- 3.9 quasi In Situ Living Collections -- 3.10 Obtaining Outplants: Managed Breeding -- 3.11 Obtaining Outplants: Types of Seeds and their Processing -- 3.12 Obtaining Outplants: Raising Seedlings -- 3.13 In Situ: Translocation -- 3.13.1 Types of Translocation -- 3.13.2 Translocation: General Recommendations -- 3.13.3 Translocation: Within-Population Genetic Diversity.. - 3.13.4 Translocation: Among-Population Genetic Diversity and Gene Flow -- 3.13.5 Assessment of Translocation Success -- 4 Restoration of Threatened Species Habitat -- 4.1 Conservation-Oriented Restoration Versus Species-Targeted Conservation and Traditional Restoration -- 4.2 Prioritizing Locations -- 4.3 Reference Conditions -- 4.4 Making Species Lists -- 4.4.1 How Many Species? -- 4.4.2 Which Species? -- 4.5 Collecting Seeds and Obtaining Outplants -- 4.6 Planting Design -- 4.7 Biotic Interactions -- 4.7.1 Reestablishment of the Integrity of Disrupted Interactions Crucial for Ecosystem Functioning -- 4.7.2 Reestablishment of Pollination Services -- 4.7.3 Reestablishment of Frugivory -- 4.8 Addressing Recruitment Problems -- 4.8.1 Causes of Recruitment Failure -- 4.8.2 Seed Limitation -- 4.8.3 Establishment Limitation -- 4.9 Monitoring and Assessment of Success -- 5 Conservation-Oriented Restoration Silvicultural Toolkit -- 5.1 Active Interventions in Restoration -- 5.1.1 Facilitation by Benefactor Species -- 5.1.2 Enrichment Planting -- 5.1.3 Thinning the Understory: Liberation Cutting and Selective Thinning -- 5.1.4 Thinning the Overstory: Individual and Group Selection -- 5.1.5 Replacement Planting -- 5.1.6 Utilizing Deadwood to Improve Regeneration -- 5.1.7 Use of Ecotechnology-Based Tools -- 5.1.8 Use of Non-Native Species in Planting -- 5.2 Major Principles of Forest Restoration -- 5.2.1 Secondary Forest Succession -- 5.2.2 Land Use and Forest Regeneration Potential -- 5.2.3 Forest Restoration Pathways -- 5.3 Existing Methods of Forest Restoration -- 5.3.1 Passive Natural Regeneration -- 5.3.2 Assisted or Accelerated Natural Regeneration -- 5.3.3 Restoration Plantings -- 5.3.4 Miyawaki Method (Dense Planting of Many Species) -- 5.3.5 Framework Species Method (Close-Spaced Planting of Limited Numbers of Species).. - 5.3.6 Mixed-Plantation Method (Spatially Organized Planting) -- 5.3.7 Nucleation Method (Scattered Planting) -- 5.3.8 Group or Cluster Planting Method (Spatially Organized Scattered Planting) -- 5.3.9 Level of Habitat Degradation and the Appropriate Restoration Method -- 5.3.10 Planting Designs in the Landscape Context -- 6 Conservation-Oriented Restoration of Particular Systems -- 6.1 Incorporation of Restoration of Particular Systems into Regional Conservation Planning -- 6.2 Restoration of Selectively Logged Forests -- 6.3 Restoration of Abandoned Agricultural Lands -- 6.4 Restoration of Pastures -- 6.5 Restoration of Forest Plantations -- 7 From Theory to Practice -- 7.1 Areas of Emergency for Applying Conservation-Oriented Restoration -- 7.1.1 Biodiversity Hotspots -- 7.1.2 Priority Habitats -- 7.1.3 Ecoregions with the Highest Deforestation-to-Protection Ratio -- 7.1.4 Past and Future Refugia -- 7.1.5 Important Plant Areas -- 7.1.6 Key Biodiversity Areas -- 7.1.7 Areas of Imminent Species Extinction -- 7.1.8 Oceanic Islands -- 7.2 Examples of Conservation-Oriented Restoration Projects -- 7.2.1 Restoration of Critically Endangered Wollemia nobilis -- 7.2.2 Restoration of Threatened Relicts in Mount Jinfo Nature Reserve -- 7.2.3 Restoration of a Native Hawaiian Forest at Limahuli Preserve -- 7.2.4 Restoration of Cousine Island of the Seychelles -- Concluding Remarks and Prospects for the Proposed Strategy -- References -- Index.. - The rate of species and natural habitat loss across our planet is steadily accelerating. This book argues that existing practises of plant conservation are inadequate and firmly supports the placement of ecological restoration at the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. The author unifies different aspects of conservation into one coherent concept, including natural area protection, ex situ conservation and in situ interventions through either population management or ecological restoration. Assisted colonization, experimentation, and utilization of threatened plant species are raised as crucial elements in restoration, with partly novel ecosystems being among its major target areas. Covering a wide spectrum of plant conservation examples, and offering practical methodologies alongside the theoretical context, this is a vital resource for students, research scientists and practitioners in conservation biology and restoration ecology.
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| ISBN | 1-108-57226-X. - 1-108-64867-3
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