Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach

A must-read for those of us thinking about the struggling with forest management strategies to conserve biological richness in temperate forests. Wonderfully done with solid, real-world examples.

“This is the most detailed and comprehensive review I know of the connections between biodiversity and forest structure as determined by environment and management. Lindenmayer and Franklin provide a critical look at the importance of wild forest preserves; more important, they explore detailed prescriptions for extractive forest management that support the range of biodiversity goals embedded in the Montreal Protocols. This book is remarkable in its importance for scholars and educators and in its direct utility to managers and decisionmakers.” — Norman L. Christensen Jr., professor of ecology and founding dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

“A must-read for those of us thinking about the struggling with forest management strategies to conserve biological richness in temperate forests. Wonderfully done with solid, real-world examples. A seminal book marking clearly the shift in conservation focus from reserve planning and design to the inclusion of management of the intervening space. At last a book that clearly lays out the role, practices, and importance of manipulation of the matrix in sustaining biodiversity and its associated values.” — Glen Dunsworth, forest renewal and biodiversity program leader, Weyerhauser, Nanaimo Woodlands, BC Coastal Group

“If you care about biodiversity, you have to care about forests. Here we have two master ecologists – one a young virtuoso from Down Under, and the other a nestor from the epicenter of forest biodiversity research – who have joined forces to write a book about how to manage forests for biodiversity. Their focus on all those forests in which our designated reserves float as small islands is right on the mark, for this is where the key battle to maintain terrestrial biodiversity will be waged.” — Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., Libra Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Maine, and president, Society for Conservation Biology.