Nature conservation : concepts and practice
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Nature conservation : concepts and practice
（Environmental science and engineering, . Environmental science）
Springer, c2006
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English and French; abstracts in English
One folded col. map in pocket
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation. The panel of contributors 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 book celebrates the life's work of Professor Franco Pedrotti.
Table of Contents
Proeminent Pioneers Of Nature Conservation.- Traditions in Romanian Sozology.- Jean Massart, Pionnier De La Conservation De La Nature En Belgique.- The Journal Of Renzo Videsott: The "Historical Archives" Of Nature Protection in Italy in the Period 1944-1953.- Social And Legal Aspects Of Conservation.- Nature and Conservation: A New, More Active Role for Universities.- From the Protection of Landscape and "Natural Beauties" to the Defence of Ecosystems in Italy.- Wild Plant Species Endangered Through Intensive Harvest.- Peatlands Of North-Eastern Europe and their Conservation.- Biodiversity Assessment.- Woody Formations in a Mesothermic Valley of Tarija Province, Bolivia.- The Protection Of Biodiversity in Tuscany.- The Reasons in Favour of Setting Up a New Natural Reserve in the Black Sea Shore Area Between North and South Eforie (Constan?A County).- Assessment of the Vascular Flora Conservation Through Specific Indices - A Comparison Study in Central Europe.- Anthropogenic Habitats Can Shelter Threatened Plants.- Globally and European Threatened Plants Present in Dobrogea (South-Eastern Romania).- Biogeographical Characterization of the Bryological Flora of the "Montagna di Torricchio" Nature Reserve (Central Italy).- Five New Species for the Romanian Lichen Flora.- The Ecological Role of Deadwood in Natural Forests.- A Syntaxonomic Review Of Thermophilous Shrub Communities (Syringo-Carpinion Orientalis) in Sw Romania.- Forest Communities Floristically Specific to Eastern Romania.- Dry Grasslands of the Corhan Hill - S?Bed Village (Mure? County).- Threatened Plant Communities as an Indicator of Fishponds Value: An Example from Silesia (Sw Poland).- The Saxon Villages Of Southern Transylvania: Conserving Biodiversity in a Historic Landscape.- Biotope Types of the Treeline of the Central Greater Caucasus.- The Water Reservoirs of the Confluence of the BistrithA With The Siret River (Eastern Romania) - An Important Bird Area.- Conservation Of Steppe Birdlife in Italy.- Contributions to Conservation Biology.- Conservation Of Deciduous Tree Species in Europe: Projecting Potential Ranges and Changes.- Determinism, Chaos and Stochasticity in Plant Community Successions: Consequences for Phytosociology and Conservation Ecology.- Phytosociologie Moderne Et Conservation Rationnelle De La Nature.- Anatomy of the Endangered Plant Glaucium Flavum Cr., Occurring on the Romanian Black Sea Littoral.- Steppe-Forest Succession as a Conservation Problem.- Clonal Growth Modes in Plant Communities Along a Stress Gradient in the Central Apennines, Italy.- Relationship Between Phenology and Above - Ground Phytomass in a Grassland Community in Central Italy.- Evaluation of the Italian Apennine Ecosystems With Respect to Anatomical and Ethological Characteristics of the Roe Deer.- Conservation Planning and Management.- Planeco - Planning in Ecological Networks.- The cartography of landscape units in Sao Bento do Sapucai - Serra da Mantiqueira (Sao Paulo, Brazil).- Environmental Management For Biodiversity Conservation.- The Modena Botanic Garden: Plant Conservation and Habitat Management Strategies.- Forest Management in Protected Areas in Italy.- Traditional Management of the Rural Areas in Wallonia (Belgium).- Nature Conservation in Practice.- Effects of Irrigations on Swamp Forests Drained by Lignite Mining.- Autochthony and Conservation of a Relict Population of Abies Alba Miller in the Apuan Alps Regional Park (Tuscany - Italy).- Dune Slacks - An Endangered Habitat in the Conflict Between Nature Conservation and Groundwater Management.- On the Problems of Nature Conservation in the Desert Zone in Russia.
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