Biodiversity Islands Strategies For Conservation In Humandominated Environments Florencia Montagnini by Florencia Montagnini 9783030922337, 9783030922344, 3030922332, 3030922340 instant download after payment.

A biodiversity island is an area of high biodiversity located within ecologically
degraded, human-dominated landscapes. Biodiversity in the “islands” exceeds the
surrounding landscape biodiversity baseline. These biodiversity islands thereby act
as ecological refuges, promoting restoration and conservation in altered ecosystems
prevalent today throughout the globe.
Biodiversity islands can provide food, water, fuels, and fibers, as well as genetic,
medicinal, biochemical, and ornamental resources, pollination services, biological
pest control, and maintenance of life cycles of migratory species. These landscapes
hold promise for protecting a multitude of plant and animal species for present and
future generations. The presence of biodiversity islands spread over a large area can
decrease the chances of habitat loss from fire, disease, and other disturbances.
Biodiversity islands can exist within a wide range of human-dominated landscapes,
including forest, agricultural, and urban settings, and can vary in scale from
square meters to thousands of square kilometers. Design strategies for biodiversity
islands depend on the spatial distribution of reserves throughout the landscape, the
degree of site degradation, the species present, and their locations within the urban to
rural spectrum.
This book is intended to provide an overview for the identification and establishment
of biodiversity islands, presenting examples and case studies where the biodiversity
islands approach is being used in a variety of locations and contexts
worldwide. This book will contribute to design parameters on appropriate sizing
and spatial distribution of biodiversity islands to be effective in conservation and
regeneration across the landscape, using integrated landscape management
approaches.
The chapters discuss current challenges faced today by biodiversity conservation
researchers, practitioners, and policy makers and propose innovative approaches to
tackle them.