CADIC   02618
CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Overview of biodiversity loss in South America: A landscape perspective for sustainable forest management and conservation in temperate forests.
Autor/es:
S LUQUE; G MARTÍNEZ PASTUR; C ECHEVERRÍA; MJ PACHA
Libro:
Landscape Ecology and Forest Management: Challenges and Solutions in a Changing Globe
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Lugar: Heidelberg; Año: 2010; p. 352 - 379
Resumen:
South American forests contain an important fraction of the world’s biodiversity, and the current trend of deforestation will decline the native forests to an unacceptable levels. A landscape perspective to sustainable forest management and conservation can provides a holistic analysis to build up future research and tools towards an adaptive forest management approach to preserve forest biodiversity value while promoting the sustainable use of forests. In this chapter we stress the importance of a landscape ecology perspective towards managing forests. We focus mainly on the temperate forests of Argentina and Chile, but within a broader framework of other forests in the South American region. An overview of threats to native forests is presented, and then new perspectives of conservation and management alternatives were analyzed. Our aim is to provide specific examples where a landscape ecology holistic approach contributes to integrate biodiversity value with the need for forestry activities, and provide insights into forest conservation and management initiatives, comparing traditional and timber oriented management with new emerging approaches, including contributions of a landscape ecology perspective.