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Introduction. Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments

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Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments

Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ((TOBC,volume 20))

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This chapter serves to conceptualize, identify and promote implementation of the framing tool we term Biodiversity Islands: ecological refuges where plants and animals can thrive without major interference from human activity, thereby providing ecological, economic, and social benefits at the ecosystem, landscape, and global levels. Design strategies for these biodiversity islands depend on their purpose, as well as on the spatial distribution of reserves throughout the landscape, degree of landscape degradation, species present, and location within the urban-rural spectrum. Biodiversity islands can exist in a range of human-dominated landscapes (e.g., agricultural, wetland, urban) and can range from square meters to many square kilometers in size. In promoting biodiversity islands, we encourage the application of integrated landscape management and inclusive community led action, and discuss possible financial and non-monetary incentives for their implementation and protection. This book presents examples of biodiversity islands from throughout the world and discusses potential difficulties with their use. We expect this book to be useful to researchers, farmers, foresters, landowners, land managers, city planners, and policy makers.

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    The National Institute for Agricultural Technology (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, INTA) is an Argentine federal extension agency in charge of the generation, adaptation and diffusion of technologies, knowledge and learning procedures for agriculture, forest and agro-industrial activities within an ecologically clean environment.

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The authors thank Rafael Herrera, Joseph Orefice, Victor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Sara Scherr and two anonymous reviewers who offered constructive and useful criticism on this chapter. A Conference Session entitled: Biodiversity Islands: Pockets of Protected Land in Human Dominated Environments, that the authors led as part of the IUFRO Conference “Adaptive Management for Forested Landscapes in Transformation”, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina, October 1, 2018, inspired and initiated this chapter as well as other contributions contained in this book.

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Montagnini, F., Levin, B., Berg, K.E. (2022). Introduction. Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments. In: Montagnini, F. (eds) Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92234-4_1

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