Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
10 - The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Habitats for species vary substantially in their stability, whether temporally or spatially. Some habitats, such as rocks and lakes, may be present for centuries and only subject to changes in climate, whereas others, such as dung patches or carcasses, may be available only for a single season or even shorter. This variation in predictability constitutes an important selective force for associated species. It has been suggested that the habitat is the template for ecological strategies (Southwood 1977). In this sense, individuals of a species are confronted with the challenge of determining whether reproduction is best achieved “here” or “somewhere else” as well as “now” or “sometime in the future”. By addressing these tradeoffs, the successful reproductive strategy will represent the life history of the species. Species adapted to long-lasting, predictable habitats are expected to generally be more sedentary; for them, the spatial distribution of the habitat is particularly important. This is a basic ecological starting point for appreciating the need to include time and space to a greater extent in forest conservation management. If only total habitat amount is considered, but the temporal and spatial distribution is ignored, important factors influencing the long-term viability of focal species will be missed and thus, at least for some species, the risk of decline and extinction will be severely underestimated.
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- Setting Conservation Targets for Managed Forest Landscapes , pp. 207 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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