Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
11 - Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Ecological restoration of natural forests on former agricultural land or on sites formerly planted with non-indigenous tree species has become a central component of sustainable forest management in many parts of the world (Angelstam et al. 2004; Hérault et al. 2005). To become operational at the stand or the landscape level, the principles of sustainable forest management need to be broken down into objectives and in indicators to monitor.
To define the ecological objectives of restoration efforts, a reference or target system is essential. This information generally consists of contemporary ecological data from a reference site (Bakker et al. 2000). In the case of forest restoration, the reference may consist of ancient forests (Honnay et al. 2002). Ancient forest sites are commonly defined as sites that have been continuously wooded since a reference date in the past, and it is generally accepted that this continuity has not been broken by forest management practices such as coppicing but only by an alternative land use such as cultivation or pasture (Peterken 1996). The reference date varies between regions and countries and, very pragmatically, reflects the availability of the first detailed land-use maps (e.g. 1600, Peterken (1974); 1700, Rackham (1980); 1789, Lawesson et al. (1998); 1850, Grashof-Bokdam (1997)).
After setting the objectives, indicators can be measured repeatedly to examine whether they directionally change towards the objectives and to evaluate to what extent the objectives have been reached.
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- Setting Conservation Targets for Managed Forest Landscapes , pp. 227 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009