Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes write by Pablo Campos. This book was released on 2013-06-18. Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly modified yet productive environment that is sought-after by every manner of species. The grazing of wildlife and livestock in oak woodlands yields a remarkable plant and animal biodiversity, creating a mosaic of habitats and visually pleasing savannas. Added products unique to Spain such as Iberian pigs and cork, and in California multiple landowner benefits, include valued ecosystem services that allow owners, visitors, and conservation supporters to experience the benefits of woodland life. With its 15 chapters a decade in the making, this handsomely illustrated book covers key topics in oak woodland policy, ecology, and management in Spain and California, presenting new research results and reviewing an existing expert literature.
Conservation Planning of Oak Woodlands in Portugal and California
Conservation Planning of Oak Woodlands in Portugal and California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conservation Planning of Oak Woodlands in Portugal and California write by Maria João Ferreira Dos Santos. This book was released on 2010. Conservation Planning of Oak Woodlands in Portugal and California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mediterranean ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots'; however, translating conservation needs into implementation has been hindered by their function as working landscapes that integrate both human and natural components. The goal of this dissertation was to establish a regional level conservation plan following the guidelines of the systematic conservation planning framework for oak woodland working landscapes in Portugal and California. I used a systems approach that suggests that to address a question at a focal level (regional level conservation planning - the scale of analysis that matches both organism responses and the implementation of conservation actions), higher and lower levels of organization are required to understand the phenomena at hand. The higher level is one that provides context, constraints, controls and boundaries, and I considered this as the description of the socio-economic context of oak woodlands (Chapter 1). This chapter focused on answering whether conservation policy can be reshaped to conserve Mediterranean oak woodland ecosystems with differing sociopolitical cultural contexts? The lower level is one that describes the components, mechanisms and initiating conditions, and I considered this as the descriptions of species habitat use (Chapters 2 and 3). These chapters focused on answering which types of information we should use to describe habitat use patterns of wildlife species using oak woodlands, and how to integrate variability in space, time and species yearly cycle. Finally, I integrated the information from higher and lower levels at the focal level of analysis (Chapter 4). In this chapter I assessed if yearly habitat for wildlife species is well represented with the current protected areas, and is the role of the working landscapes. In Chapter 1, I show that oak woodlands are managed to maximize revenue from one or more resources; however, persistence of these resources is threatened by replacement rate, land-use history and interdependence with other resources. Nonetheless, conservation action can be likely supported by the willingness that Iberian and Californian landowners expressed to withstand some opportunity costs to preserve their `way of life', or existence and option values. Moving forward, conservation action has several challenges that include changes in current biodiversity, changes in current market incentives for oak woodland products, application of current and creation of new conservation tools and policies, patterns of people migration and land abandonment, regeneration and restoration, and fire and climate change. In chapters 2 and 3, I show that integration of multiple source descriptions of environmental parameters improved our understanding of mesocarnivore use of oak woodlands. The most parsimonious model included descriptions of four components of habitat: type (measured as land cover type), heterogeneity (measured as canopy cover), quality (measured as productivity over time), and persistence (measured as stress: phenology and water stress over time). Further, I found that habitat use models improved when matching the time of species detections with that of the measured components of habitats, and that habitat use is closely related to species yearly life cycle periods (especially reproduction). In chapter 4, I assessed how well protected and non protected areas match the spatial and temporal habitat requirements of mesocarnivores, and found that California protected areas do a better job than Portuguese ones. Further, there is an important and often overlooked component of the spatial and temporal habitat that is only present in non protected areas, in the working landscapes. This suggests two avenues for conservation: by increasing the number of protected areas to encompass species-habitat dynamics, and/or to develop conservation actions directed towards the working landscapes. Future conservation of oak woodlands in Portugal and California face many challenges, and creative solutions are required to move the decision support work presented herein towards decision making, implementation, and monitoring at a scale that matches both organism responses and conservation actions.
Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge
Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge write by James Aronson. This book was released on 2012-09-26. Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cork oak has historically been an important species in the western Mediterranean—ecologically as a canopy or “framework” tree in natural woodlands, and culturally as an economically valuable resource that underpins local economies. Both the natural woodlands and the derived cultural systems are experiencing rapid change, and whether or not they are resilient enough to adapt to that change is an open question. Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge provides a synthesis of the most up-to-date, scientific, and practical information on the management of cork oak woodlands and the cultural systems that depend on cork oak. In addition, Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge offers ten site profiles written by local experts that present an in-depth vision of cork oak woodlands across a range of biophysical, historical, and cultural contexts, with sixteen pages of full-color photos that illustrate the tree, agro-silvopastoral systems, products, resident biodiversity, and more. Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge is an important book for anyone interested in the future of cork oak woodlands, or in the management of cultural landscapes and their associated land-use systems. In a changing world full of risks and surprises, it represents an excellent example of a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to studying, managing, and restoring an ecosystem, and will serve as a guide for other studies of this kind.
Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems
Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems write by Teresa Pinto-Correia. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the resilience of silvo-pastoral systems now, and in the future. As such, it is about people. The goal is to fill the gap in the knowledge on silvo-pastoral systems and their changing trends, by adding the human dimension, with enough detail to draw inferences about the new governance solutions that are needed to address the multiple challenges faced by silvo-pastoral systems. As such, the book provides knowledge applicable to current and future silvo-pastoral territories in other regions across the world. The volume is divided into three sections: people and institutions, the institutional framework, and governance models. Each section, composed of several chapters, draws on empirical work about the Iberian montado and dehesa as well as from other similar systems in the Mediterranean, both on the northern and on the southern sides, in order to broaden its scope and cover a wider range of situations and examples. Some of the chapters rely more strongly on empirical findings and current experiences, others on a literature review and reflection by the authors over many years working with these systems. The conclusion sums up the most relevant findings from each chapter and discusses how research can progress so that new scientific approaches and evidence can support better adapted governance models of silvopastoral systems to face future challenges. This text will be highly valuable to university and research institute libraries, academics, policy officials, and stakeholder groups, such as NGOs and sectoral organizations, who wish to better understand the relevance of the human factor and use this knowledge to find sustainable solutions. It will be a central reading for postgraduate students enrolled in rural planning, landscape management and governance, agronomy and forestry, as well as geography and socio-ecology programmes, that have a focus on sustainable land use management and supporting mixed farming systems.
Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests
Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests write by John A. Stanturf. This book was released on 2015-08-14. Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This substantially updated new edition reflects the growing recognition that large areas of forests are degraded globally. This edition describes forest restoration in the context of rapid social, economic, environmental, and climate change. Covering the last decade's significant advances in forest restoration concepts and practice, this edition has 16 new chapters and 19 thoroughly revised chapters. This book is an excellent source of information for researchers, managers, policymakers, and graduate students in forestry and ecology.
