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National Parks Vegetation, Wildlife and Threats

Edited By: Grazia Polisciano and Olmo Farina
243 pages
National Parks
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  • National Parks ISBN: 9781608767427 Hardback May 2010 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 5 days
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About this book

In recent decades, there has been an increased need to understand ecosystems in order to be able to manage them for conservation and sustainable use. Yet examples of how research directly supports conservation are rare. This book examines the impact of disturbance, specifically habitat fragmentation and forest harvesting in national parks. This book also presents the results of observations of bulk deposition and its physico-chemical properties in national parks in Poland and tries to identify tendencies of change in its composition.

In addition, research on Uganda's forest and savanna parks are reviewed, stimulating thinking about what kind of research is of value in guiding conservation actions. Over the past several decades, a highly polarised debate has emerged in the conservation literature about whether national parks in lesser developed countries should follow the 'Yellowstone model' of strict protection or whether new types of national park should be developed.

The authors of this book assess the U.S. national park experience and ways in which to balance people's needs and desires with nature protection in national parks. Other chapters in this book examine the abundance and diversity of vertebrate fauna in national parks in India, the roles of rhodolith beds and their impact in the marine national parks of the Gulf of California management, the impacts of multiple or extreme storms on national seashores, and the impact of invasive plant species on biodiversity and ecological integrity of national parks.

Contents

Preface; Diversity & Distribution of Trees & Vascular Epiphytes in Kibale National Park, Uganda; Changes & Trends in the Chemistry of Precipitation in the Wielkopolski National Park (Poland); The U.S. National Parks in International Perspective: The Yellowstone Model or Conservation Syncretism?; Response & Recovery of the National Seashores to Extreme Storms: Sensitivity to the Frequency of Storm Events; Invasive Plant Species: Silent Threats to Biodiversity & Ecological Integrity in National Parks; The Donana National Park (Spain): Geodesy, DTM & Water Modeling as Management Tools; The Influence of Disturbance on Lepidopteran Community & their Seasonality on a Constant Leaf Resource in Kibale National Park, Uganda -- Implications for Conservation & Forest Management; Vegetation Analysis & Tree Population Structure of Sal (Shorea robusta C.F. Gaertn) Forests: A Case Study from the Madhupur & Bhawal National Park in Bangladesh; Rhodolith Beds as Critical Habitat for Monitoring in Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of California; Diversity of Vertebrate Fauna of Ranthambhore National Park (RNP), India; Conservation Research in Uganda's National Parks: Forests & Savannas; Index.

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Edited By: Grazia Polisciano and Olmo Farina
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