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Landscape and Regional Planning for Conservation: Issues and Practicalities

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Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

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Conservation planning attempts to address conservation problems by drawing on our knowledge of natural ecosystems and our understanding of human impacts on these systems. However, attempts to use existing theory to counteract these impacts have revealed significant limitations to our ecological knowledge. Although existing theory can describe how the components of ecosystems interact, very little of this theory can be used to specify the details of ecosystem modification required to ameliorate or reverse the detrimental impacts of human land use on biological diversity. Our capacity to describe problems in great detail does not translate easily into an ability to prescribe solutions.

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Lambeck, R.J., Hobbs, R.J. (2002). Landscape and Regional Planning for Conservation: Issues and Practicalities. In: Gutzwiller, K.J. (eds) Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0059-5_20

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