Nature Conservation (Environmental Science and Engineering Environmental Science)

✍ Scribed by Dan Gafta, John R. Akeroyd

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 460
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation. The wide panel of contributors, including botanists, zoologists, ecologists, architects, lawyers and journalists, consider a range of topics in vegetation and biodiversity assessment, planning and management of conservation zones and protected areas, together with historical and social/legal issues of the environment and nature conservation. The case-studies reported emphasize the importance of traditonal phytosociologal, floristic and faunistic research, in combination with cutting edge molecular biology and genetics. The book celebrates the life's work of Professor Franco Pedrotti, who has done so much to propagate a holistic view of conservation.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 8
Short review and conclusions of the international symposium......Page 9
Laudatio to Prof. Franco PEDROTTI......Page 13
PART I. PROEMINENT PIONEERS OF NATURE CONSERVATION......Page 15
Traditions in Romanian sozology......Page 16
Jean Massart, pionnier de la conservation de la nature en Belgique......Page 26
The Journal of Renzo Videsott: The “historical archives” of nature protection in Italy in the period 1944-1953......Page 46
PART II. SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF CONSERVATION......Page 51
Nature and conservation: a new, more active role for Universities......Page 52
From the protection of landscape and “natural beauties” to the defence of ecosystems in Italy......Page 55
Wild plant species endangered through intensive harvest......Page 65
Peatlands of north-eastern Europe and their conservation......Page 68
PART III. BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT......Page 74
Woody formations in a mesothermic valley of Tarija Province, Bolivia......Page 75
The protection of biodiversity in Tuscany......Page 87
The reasons in favour of setting up a new natural reserve in the Black Sea shore area between North and South Eforie (Constanţa County)......Page 90
Assessment of the vascular flora conservation through specific indices - a comparison study in Central Europe......Page 98
Anthropogenic habitats can shelter threatened plants......Page 107
Globally and European threatened plants present in Dobrogea (south-eastern Romania)......Page 116
Biogeographical characterization of the bryological flora of the “Montagna di Torricchio” Nature Reserve (Central Italy)......Page 123
Five new species for the Romanian lichen flora......Page 131
The ecological role of deadwood in natural forests......Page 137
A syntaxonomic review of thermophilous shrub communities (Syringo-Carpinion orientalis) in SW Romania......Page 142
Forest communities floristically specific to eastern Romania......Page 169
Dry grasslands of the Corhan Hill - Săbed village (Mureş County)......Page 181
Threatened plant communities as an indicator of fishponds value: an example from Silesia (SW Poland)......Page 195
The Saxon villages of southern Transylvania: conserving biodiversity in a historic landscape......Page 199
Biotope types of the treeline of the central Greater Caucasus......Page 211
The water reservoirs of the confluence of the Bistriţa with the Siret river (eastern Romania) - an important bird area......Page 226
Conservation of steppe birdlife in Italy......Page 235
PART IV. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY......Page 240
Conservation of deciduous tree species in Europe: projecting potential ranges and changes......Page 241
Determinism, chaos and stochasticity in plant community successions: consequences for phytosociology and conservation ecology......Page 254
Phytosociologie moderne et conservation rationnelle de la nature......Page 267
Anatomy of the endangered plant Glaucium flavum Cr., occurring on the Romanian Black Sea littoral......Page 273
Steppe-forest succession as a conservation problem......Page 281
Clonal growth modes in plant communities along a stress gradient in the central Apennines, Italy......Page 289
Relationship between phenology and above - ground phytomass in a grassland community in central Italy......Page 309
Evaluation of the Italian Apennine ecosystems with respect to anatomical and ethological characteristics of the roe deer......Page 328
PART V. CONSERVATION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT......Page 336
PLANECO-Planning in ecological networks......Page 337
The cartography of landscape units in São Bento do Sapucaí - Serra da Mantiqueira (São Paulo, Brazil)......Page 343
Environmental management for biodiversity conservation......Page 358
The Modena Botanic Garden: plant conservation and habitat management strategies......Page 369
Forest management in protected areas in Italy......Page 380
Traditional management of the rural areas in Wallonia (Belgium)......Page 392
PART VI. NATURE CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE......Page 401
Effects of irrigations on swamp forests drained by lignite mining......Page 402
Autochthony and conservation of a relict population of Abies alba Miller in the Apuan Alps Regional Park (Tuscany - Italy)......Page 417
Dune slacks - an endangered habitat in the conflict between nature conservation and groundwater management......Page 426
On the problems of nature conservation in the desert zone in Russia......Page 441
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