Setting Conservation Targets for Managed Forest Landscapes. 2009. b/w figs. 411 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Content:1. A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation;2. Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches; 3. Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges; 4. Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning using data on Andean amphibians Don Church; 5. Selecting biodiversity indiators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?; 6. Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets; 7. Bridging ecosystem and multiple-species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes; 8. Thresholds, incidence functions and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south eastern Australia; 9. Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?; 10. The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests; 11. Opportunities and constraints of using understorey plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities; 12. Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments 13. Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species; 14. Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach; 15. Forest landscape modelling as a tool to develop conservation targets 16. Setting targets: trade-offs between ecology and economy; 17. Setting implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study; 18. Putting conservation target science to work.