Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to employ historical ecology effectively.

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management and conservation context and the development of concepts related to understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and insights to all those entrusted with managing and conserving natural resources: land-use planners, ecologists, fire scientists, natural resource policy makers, conservation biologists, refuge and preserve managers, and field practitioners. The book will be particularly timely as science-based management is once again emphasized in United States federal land management and as an understanding of the potential effects of climate change becomes more widespread among resource managers.

Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/wiens/historicalenvironmentalvariation.

Content:
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: Theoretical and Conceptual Background of Historical Range of Variation (pages 3–18): William H. Romme, John A. Wiens and Hugh D. Safford
Chapter 2 Development of Historical Ecology Concepts and their Application to Resource Management and Conservation (pages 19–28): Wayne Padgett, Barbara Schrader, Mary Manning and Timothy Tear
Chapter 3 Challenges in the Application of Historical Range of Variation to Conservation and Land Management (pages 32–45): Gregory D. Hayward, Thomas T. Veblen, Lowell H. Suring and Bob Davis
Chapter 4 Historical Ecology, Climate Change, and Resource Management: Can the Past Still Inform the Future? (pages 46–62): Hugh D. Safford, Gregory D. Hayward, Nicole E. Heller and John A. Wiens
Chapter 5 What is the Scope of “History” in Historical Ecology? Issues of Scale in Management and Conservation (pages 63–75): John A. Wiens, Hugh D. Safford, Kevin McGarigal, William H. Romme and Mary Manning
Chapter 6 Native Americans, Ecosystem Development, and Historical Range of Variation (pages 76–91): Gregory J. Nowacki, Douglas W. MacCleery and Frank K. Lake
Chapter 7 Conservation and Resource Management in a Changing World: Extending Historical Range of Variation Beyond the Baseline (pages 92–109): Stephen T. Jackson
Chapter 8 Creating Historical Range of Variation (HRV) Time Series Using Landscape Modeling: Overview and Issues (pages 113–127): Robert E. Keane
Chapter 9 Modeling Historical Range of Variability at a Range of Scales: an Example Application (pages 128–145): Kevin McGarigal and William H. Romme
Chapter 10 Regional Application of Historical Ecology at Ecologically Defined Scales: Forest Ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range (pages 149–165): Thomas T. Veblen, William H. Romme and Claudia Regan
Chapter 11 Incorporating Concepts of Historical Range of Variation in Ecosystem?Based Management of British Columbia's Coastal Temperate Rainforest (pages 166–175): Andy MacKinnon and Sari C. Saunders
Chapter 12 Incorporating HRV in Minnesota National Forest Land and Resource Management Plans: a Practitioner's Story (pages 176–193): Mary Shedd, Jim Gallagher, Michael Jimenez and Duane Lula
Chapter 13 Applying historical fi re?regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies (pages 194–204): Thomas E. DeMeo, Frederick J. Swanson, Edward B. Smith, Steven C. Buttrick, Jane Kertis, Jeanne Rice, Christopher D. Ringo, Amy Waltz, Chris Zanger, Cheryl A. Friesen and John H. Cissel
Chapter 14 Using Historical Ecology to Inform Wildlife Conservation, Restoration, and Management (pages 205–217): Beth A. Hahn and John L. Curnutt
Chapter 15 River Floodplain Restoration Experiments Offer a Window into the Past (pages 218–231): Ramona O. Swenson, Richard J. Reiner, Mark Reynolds and Jaymee Marty
Chapter 16 Streams Past and Future: Fluvial Responses to Rapid Environmental Change in the Context of Historical Variation (pages 232–245): Daniel A. Auerbach, N. Leroy Poff, Ryan R. McShane, David M. Merritt, Matthew I. Pyne and Thomas K. Wilding
Chapter 17 A Framework for Applying the Historical Range of Variation Concept to Ecosystem Management (pages 246–261): William H. Romme, Gregory D. Hayward and Claudia Regan
Chapter 18 Ecological History Guides the Future of Conservation: Lessons from Africa (pages 265–272): A. R. E. Sinclair
Chapter 19 Ecological History has Present and Future Ecological Consequences – Case Studies from Australia (pages 273–280): David Lindenmayer
Chapter 20 A View from the Past to the Future (pages 281–288): Keith J. Kirby
Chapter 21 Is the Historical Range of Variation Relevant to Rangeland Management? (pages 289–296): Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Chapter 22 Knowing the Fennoscandian Taiga: Ecohistorical Lessons (pages 297–304): Yrjo Haila
Chapter 23 Reflections on the Relevance of History in a Nonstationary World (pages 305–318): Julio L. Betancourt
Chapter 24 The Growing Importance of the Past in Managing Ecosystems of the Future (pages 319–327): Hugh D. Safford, John A. Wiens and And Gregory D. Hayward