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Biodiversity and Conservation, 2008
The once extensive native forests of New Zealand’s central North Island are heavily fragmented, and the scattered remnants are now surrounded by a matrix of exotic pastoral grasslands and Pinus radiata plantation forests. The importance of these exotic habitats for native biodiversity is poorly understood.
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The once extensive native forests of New Zealand’s central North Island are heavily fragmented, and the scattered remnants are now surrounded by a matrix of exotic pastoral grasslands and Pinus radiata plantation forests. The importance of these exotic habitats for native biodiversity is poorly understood.
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Native forest monitoring : tracking changes in native forest remnants.
2016Native forest monitoring is undertaken by forest companies as a requirement for certification of their forests by groups such as the FSC. It is important for companies to be able to track changes that are occurring to native forest remnants that are often spread throughout their operational plantation forest estate.
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Native forests in agricultural landscapes: An option for sustainability
2022Fil: Manrique, Silvina Magdalena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física.
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Mosaics of Exotic Forest Plantations and Native Forests as Habitat of Pumas
Environmental Management, 2010There is a general lack of information on the impact of forest plantations and the presence of urban settlements on populations of resource-demanding species such as large felids. To partially address this problem, a project study was conducted to find out whether mosaics of forest plantations and native vegetation can function as an adequate habitat ...
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Native Forests and Agriculture in Salta (Argentina)
The Journal of Environment & Development, 2011Despite much deforestation in the past, the northwestern Argentinean province of Salta still has more than 6 million hectares of native forests. Land use conversion for agriculture is threatening these forests and the survival of indigenous populations and small-scale farmers. In November 2007, Argentina’s National Congress passed a law to regulate the
Lucas Seghezzo +7 more
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Nurturing the Forest: Strategies of Native Amazonians
2021In this chapter, the author examines shifting views, focusing on recent and ongoing studies that seek to discover folk and native Amazonians cognitive and behavioural treatment, and transformation, of the environment within which they live. The image most people still hold of heterogenous forests with hundreds of species per hectare is not wrong, but ...
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Forest fragmentation and biodiversity loss: the forgotten native forests
2007The focus of the symposium is to bring experts together working in the evaluation at the landscape level of temperate rainforests, subtropical forests and other similar hot spots of biodiversity that have been neglected.
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Insects in Native and Alien Forests in Australia
2018The taxonomic and ecological variety of forest insects, and their intricate relationships to the functioning and integration of forest ecosystems, encompasses many different trophic interactions and ecological contexts. These were summarised broadly, with emphasis on the temperate region forestry of Europe and North America, by Dajoz (2000), whose wide-
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