Ecological principles of nature conservation : applications in temperate and boreal environments
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Ecological principles of nature conservation : applications in temperate and boreal environments
（Conservation ecology series : principles, practices and management）
Elsevier Applied Science, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: applied ecological principles and their implementation in nature conservation. Conservation of communities - the importance of edges, surroundings and landscape mosaic structure. Conservation of plant and animal populations in theory and practice. Conservation of genetic variation in plants - the importance of population size and gene flow. The ecology of dispersal in relation to conservation. Archipelagoes and theories of insularity. Boreal forests - the focal habitats of fennoscandia. Forested and open wetland complexes. Conservation management of riparian communities. Forests in the temperate-boreal transition - natural and man-made features. Conservation biology in agricultural habitat islands.
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