Ecosystem Management: Applications for Sustainable Forest and Wildlife Resources

Publisher Marketing: Contributors to this volume - leading experts who are agency personnel as well as researchers - now clarify the key elements of sound ecosystem management and offer prescriptions for implementing them. The authors discuss definitions of ecosystem management, sustainability of ecological systems, landscape ecology, resource management at different scales and in an ecosystem context, new advances in computer technology that facilitate classification schemes for ecosystems, ecosystem restoration, biological diversity, and public concerns. Throughout, the experts agree that management practices must be sustainable: that production of commodities, such amenities as recreation and aesthetics, and biodiversity must not be allowed to decline over time. Publisher Marketing: How can ecosystem management achieve a balance between the need to produce commodities and sustain biodiversity and the desire for such amenities as recreation and aesthetics? Experts in the field clarify key elements of ecosystem management and offer prescriptions for implementing them.

Contributor Bio:  Boyce, Mark S Boyce is Vallier Chair of Ecology and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Contributor Bio:  Haney, Alan Haney is professor of forestry in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.