Nodes, networks, and MUMs: Preserving diversity at all scales

Environmental Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 299-309

  Noss, Reed F ^a   Harris, Larry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Landscape ecology; Nature reserves; Patch dynamics; Space time mosaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250129549     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01867252     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Reconstruction of a presettlement giant sequoia—mixed conifer forest community using the aggregation approach
2. Gap phase replacement in a maple-basswood forest
3. Nature and structure of the climax
4. The climax forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and its development
5. Songbird population response to silvicultural practices in central Appalachian hardwoods
6. Competition, disturbance and community organization: the provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community
7. The island dilemma: lessons of modern biogeographic studies for the design of natural preserves
8. Island biogeography and conservation: strategy and limitations
9. Current issues in conservation
10. The natural area movement in the United States, its past and its future
11. Corridors in a landscape: their ecological structure and function
12. Hedgerows and hedgerow networks in landscape ecology
13. Patches and structural components for a landscape ecology
14. Heterogeneity and disturbance in tropical vegetation
15. Effects of a highway on Mojave Desert rodent populations
16. Earthquake-caused landslides: a major disturbance to tropical Forests
17. Strengthening ecosystem management approaches
18. Species abundance and community organization
19. Landscape ecology and stability of populations
20. Patchy environments and species survival: chipmunks in an agricultural mosaic
21. Heritage classification: the elements of ecological diversity
22. Design and management of continental wildlife reserves: lessons from the Everglades
23. Disturbance, patch formation and community structure
24. The minimum critical size of ecosystems
25. Animal habitat isolation by roads and agricultural fields
26. Criteria used in assessing wildlife conservation potential: a review
27. Geometric forms known as fractals find sense in chaos
28. Grazing lawns: animals in herds, plant form, and coevolution
29. Species richness in streams of different size from the same drainage basin
30. A regional landscape approach to maintain diversity
31. On characterizing presettlement vegetation: how and why
32. Food web complexity and species diversity
33. Intertidal landscapes: disturbance and the dynamics of pattern
34. Patch dynamics and the size of nature reserves
35. Management of nature reserves
36. Landscape diversity: the concept applied to Yellowstone Park
37. Organization of a plant—arthropod association in simple and diverse habitats: the fauna of collards (Brassica oleracea)
38. Disturbance in marine intertidal boulder fields: the nonequilibrium maintenance of species diversity
39. Intertidal mosaics: patch size, propagule availability, and spatially variable patterns of succession
40. Dynamic structure of wave-regenerated Abies balsamea forests in the north-eastern United States
41. Natural disturbance and the steady state in high-altitude balsam fir forests
42. The guild concept applied to management of bird populations
43. Conservation and the land
44. Pattern and process in the plant community
45. Invertebrate diversity on fragmented Calluna-heartland: Effects of surrounding vegetation
46. Pattern, process, and natural disturbance in vegetation
47. After preservation: philosophical and practical problems of change
48. The role of mosaic phenomena in natural communities
49. Populations and local extinctions of birds on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
50. Landscape development, forest fires, and wilderness management