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Book SynopsisIn North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to employ historical ecology effectively.
Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management and conservation context and the development of concepts related to understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and insights to all those entrusted with managing a
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“The book provides a rich summary and critique of such ideas and approaches that will provide material both for under-graduate courses and for ecologists interested in the theory and practice of understanding historical ecological dynamics.” (Ecological Management & Restoration, 18 May 2015)
“But each chapter provides guidance on how historical ecology may be fruitfully applied to specific cases of management giving the reader much hope for the future and for potential course corrections on the landscape.” (Landscape Ecol, 15 January 2015)
"Overall, a very useful reference for advanced students in conservation and ecosystem management as well as researchers and managers developing future adaptation plans. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 March 2013)
Table of ContentsContributors, vii
Foreword, x
Preface, xii
Acknowledgments, xiv
SECTION 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, 1
JOHN A. WIENS
1 Setting the stage: theoretical and conceptual background of historical range of variation, 3
WILLIAM H. ROMME, JOHN A. WIENS, AND HUGH D. SAFFORD
2 Development of historical ecology concepts and their application to resource management and conservation, 19
WAYNE PADGETT, BARBARA SCHRADER, MARY MANNING, AND TIMOTHY TEAR
SECTION 2 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES, 29
HUGH D. SAFFORD
3 Challenges in the application of historical range of variation to conservation and land management, 32
GREGORY D. HAYWARD, THOMAS T. VEBLEN, LOWELL H. SURING, AND BOB DAVIS
4 Historical ecology, climate change, and resource management: can the past still inform the future? 46
HUGH D. SAFFORD, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, NICOLE E. HELLER, AND JOHN A. WIENS
5 What is the scope of "history" in historical ecology? Issues of scale in management and conservation, 63
JOHN A. WIENS, HUGH D. SAFFORD, KEVIN MCGARIGAL, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND MARY MANNING
6 Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation, 76
GREGORY J. NOWACKI, DOUGLAS W. MACCLEERY, AND FRANK K. LAKE
7 Conservation and resource management in a changing world: extending historical range of variation beyond the baseline, 92
STEPHEN T. JACKSON
SECTION 3 MODELING HISTORIC VARIATION AND ITS APPLICATION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUTURE VARIABILITY, 111
ROBERT E. KEANE
8 Creating historical range of variation (HRV) time series using landscape modeling: overview and issues, 113
ROBERT E. KEANE
9 Modeling historical range of variability at a range of scales: an example application, 128
KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND WILLIAM H. ROMME
SECTION 4 CASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS, 147
GREGORY D. HAYWARD
10 Regional application of historical ecology at ecologically defi ned scales: forest ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range, 149
THOMAS T. VEBLEN, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND CLAUDIA REGAN
11 Incorporating concepts of historical range of variation in ecosystem-based management of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforest, 166
ANDY MACKINNON AND SARI C. SAUNDERS
12 Incorporating HRV in Minnesota national forest land and resource management plans: a practitioner's story, 176
MARY SHEDD, JIM GALLAGHER, MICHAEL JIMÉNEZ, AND DUANE LULA
13 Applying historical fire-regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies, 194
THOMAS E. DEMEO, FREDERICK J. SWANSON, EDWARD B. SMITH, STEVEN C. BUTTRICK, JANE KERTIS, JEANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER D. RINGO, AMY WALTZ, CHRIS ZANGER, CHERYL A. FRIESEN, AND JOHN H. CISSEL
14 Using historical ecology to inform wildlife conservation, restoration, and management, 205
BETH A. HAHN AND JOHN L. CURNUTT
15 River floodplain restoration experiments offer a window into the past, 218
RAMONA O. SWENSON, RICHARD J. REINER, MARK REYNOLDS, AND JAYMEE MARTY
16 Streams past and future: fluvial responses to rapid environmental change in the context of historical variation, 232
DANIEL A. AUERBACH, N. LEROY POFF, RYAN R. MCSHANE, DAVID M. MERRITT, MATTHEW I. PYNE, AND THOMAS K. WILDING
17 A framework for applying the historical range of variation concept to ecosystem management, 246
WILLIAM H. ROMME, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, AND CLAUDIA REGAN
SECTION 5 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, 263
JOHN A. WIENS
18 Ecological history guides the future of conservation: lessons from Africa, 265
A.R.E. SINCLAIR
19 Ecological history has present and future ecological consequences – case studies from Australia, 273
DAVID LINDENMAYER
20 A view from the past to the future, 281
KEITH J. KIRBY
21 Is the historical range of variation relevant to rangeland management? 289
BRANDON T. BESTELMEYER
22 Knowing the Fennoscandian taiga: ecohistorical lessons, 297
YRJÖ HAILA
SECTION 6 CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE, 305
23 Reflections on the relevance of history in a nonstationary world, 307
JULIO L. BETANCOURT
24 The growing importance of the past in managing ecosystems of the future, 319
HUGH D. SAFFORD, JOHN A. WIENS, AND GREGORY D. HAYWARD
Index, 329
Colour plate pages fall between pp. 162 and 163
