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Extinction Debt of Protected Areas in Developing Landscapes
Conservation Biology, 2004Abstract: To conserve biological diversity, protected‐area networks must be based not only on current species distributions but also on the landscape's long‐term capacity to support populations. We used spatially explicit population models requiring detailed habitat and demographic data to evaluate the ability ...
Carroll, Carlos +3 more
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Discovering archaeological landscapes in parks and protected areas
North American Archaeologist, 2019Monitoring cultural resources in parks and protected areas is greatly enhanced using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). For this example, a pilot inventory of cultural resources is illustrated for the United States National Park Service lands that protect the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts.
Robert S Bristow, Anna Therien
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Protected area networks in an urbanizing landscape
2018The selection of land parcels for preservation and protection (i.e. the designation of a “Protected Area”) is inherently a human social process engaging a complex suite of economic, political, and environmental factors. Since the 1960s, the U.S. federal government has encouraged local engagement in land conservation through new funding opportunities ...
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Landscape and Protected Areas — Polish Experiences
2008The objective of this chapter is to discuss the problems related to methods of landscape ecological systems impact assessment, with special emphasis on the issue of protected areas. The problems in question will be presented for the example of Poland, where the system of protected areas is particularly well developed and covers 32.5 % of the total ...
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Keystone Species, Forest and Landscape: A Model to Select Protected Areas
Environmental Management, 2017The selection of forest fragments for conservation is usually based on spatial parameters as forest size and canopy integrity. This strategy assumes that chosen fragments present high conservation status, ensuring biodiversity and ecological functions.
Daniela Barbosa da Silva Lins +3 more
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Protected areas in the Norwegian mountains: Cultural landscape conservation ‐ whose landscape?
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2004This article aims to explore the application of a practice-based understanding of landscape in conservation and management. The point of departure is the understanding of landscape in landscape conservation and different understandings in the discipline of geography.
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THE PLANNING OF THE PROTECTED AREAS AS A MODEL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE LANDSCAPE
2008PLANNING FOR PROTECTED AREAS: A MODEL OF PROTECTION FOR THE LANDSCAPE. Planning for protected areas, especially for parks which are areas of nature conservancy, has specific features due to the fact that the areas in question, though very different among themselves, always carry some form of official protection owing to the special value of their ...
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Landscape Management Within the Moscow City Protected Areas
2015Nowadays, 118 urban natural protected areas of Moscow occupy more than one-fifth of the city territory. They are mostly located in urban peripheral areas which appeared within the city borders in 1960 and 1984. Their major role is provided for recreation and sports activities of the urban dwellers along with the protection of natural landscapes .
E. Yu. Kolbowsky +3 more
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Urbanisation processes in landscape protected areas in Sardinia
2012Landscape protection measures apply to a considerable part of territory in the Island of Sardinia, where local valuable landscapes were deemed subject to strong anthropogenic pressure. Within this context, aim of the study presented in this paper is to supply quantitative evidence for a preliminary assessment of past and current urbanization processes ...
Porceddu M, CAMPAGNA, MICHELE
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