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Provides the latest information on restoring woodlands, with particular emphasis on plantings as habitat for wildlife.

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Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides provide fascinating templates for studying how soil organisms, plants and animals respond to such destruction. The emerging field of landslide ecology helps us understand these responses, aiding slope stabilisation and restoration and contributing to the progress made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and mitigation. Summarising the growing body of literature on the ecological consequences of landslides, this book provides a framework for the promotion of ecological tools in predicting, stabilising, and restoring biodiversity to landslide scars at both local and landscape scales. It explores nutrient cycling; soil development; and how soil organisms disperse, colonise and interact in what is often an inhospitable environment. Recognising the role that these processes play in providing solutions to the problem of unstable slopes, the authors present ecological approaches as useful, economical and resilient supplements to landslide management.

Landslides. --- Geomorphology. --- Revegetation. --- Colonization (Ecology) --- Animal colonization --- Animals --- Colonisation (Ecology) --- Ecology --- Soil conservation --- Vegetation management --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Land slides --- Landsliding --- Landslips --- Slides (Landslides) --- Mass-wasting --- Colonization

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The Pilbara region in Australia’s arid northwest is rich in flora that is suited to extreme temperatures and boom and bust cycles of moisture availability. It is also a region important for its natural resources. In places where mining activities have finished and the land is under management for ecological restoration, there is increasing demand for information about native plant communities and the biology of their seeds. Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide is the first book to combine plant identification with robust, scientific criteria for cost-effective seed-based rehabilitation. It describes 103 regional plant taxa and provides guidelines for effective collection, cleaning, storage and germination of their seeds. It addresses issues such as timing of collection, quality and viability of seed, and dormancy release, which are essential for successful restoration programs. With photographs to portray the subtle differences and unique features of each species’ biology, this book will be of great use to practitioners in the field, including environmental consultants, rehabilitation companies, commercial seed collectors and government authorities, as well as naturalists and people interested in growing the Pilbara’s remarkable plants.

Plant conservation. --- Plants. --- Revegetation. --- Restoration ecology. --- Ecological restoration --- Ecosystem restoration --- Rehabilitation ecology --- Restoration of ecosystems --- Applied ecology --- Soil conservation --- Vegetation management --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Native vegetation conservation --- Plants --- Vegetation conservation --- Nature conservation --- Plants, Protection of --- Endangered plants --- Fungi conservation --- Rare plants --- Conservation --- Extinction

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Andean dry forest ecosystems are threatened by deforestation and unsustainable land use methods. The negative effects for the livelihood of the local population, biodiversity, and the regional climate could be countered by reforestation measures; however, dry land forests have not attracted the same level of interest and investment like other ecosystems. This book describes the development of a priority-zone map for reforestation measures, showing where reforestation might have the greatest social and ecological benefits. To achieve this, a problem analysis of a case study region is conducted and thematic reforestation benefits are determined. Using remote sensing and GIS, the areas where benefits can be obtained are mapped in individual layers and compiled into a summarizing priority-zone map. It is thus possible to identify areas where reforestation would achieve multiple benefits. The concept of priority maps could be used to facilitate reforestation strategies by local communities and municipal governments and could thus contribute to initiate an integrated forest and landscape restoration of the Bolivian montane dry forests.

Reforestation. --- Tropical dry forests. --- Bolivia. --- Dry forests --- Dry tropical forests --- Monsoon forests --- Monsoonal forests --- Tropical deciduous forests --- Tropical dry deciduous forests --- Forests and forestry --- Forestation --- Reafforestation --- Forest conservation --- Revegetation --- Afforestation --- Tree planting --- Alto Perú --- Bolivija --- Bulibiya --- Bulibiya Mamallaqta --- Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia --- Plurinational State of Bolivia --- Republic of Bolivia --- República de Bolivia --- Upper Peru --- Wuliwya --- Wuliwya Suya --- Peru-Bolivian Confederation

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The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent, trends, patterns and drivers of reforestation. This edited volume draws together research from leading researchers to explore reforestation and forest regrowth across the world, from multiple dimensions – including ecosystem services, protected areas, social institutions, economic transitions, remediation of environmental problems, conservation and land abandonment – and at different scales. Detailing the methods and analyses used from across a wide range of disciplines, and incorporating research from North, South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Europe, this groundbreaking book provides a global overview of current trends, explores their underlying causes and proposes future forest trajectories. The first of its kind, the book will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary research and working on issues relevant to the biophysical, geographic, socioeconomic and institutional processes associated with reforestation.

Reforestation --- Forest regeneration --- Forest restoration --- Forest landscape management --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forestry --- Ecology --- Forest landscape management. --- Forest regeneration. --- Forest restoration. --- Reforestation. --- Forestation --- Reafforestation --- Forest ecosystem restoration --- Forest lands restoration --- Forest landscape restoration --- Forests and forestry --- Landscape restoration, Forest --- Restoration of forests --- Forest reproduction --- Natural tree regeneration --- Regeneration (Forestry) --- Tree regeneration --- Landscape management, Forest --- Restoration --- Life sciences. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Landscape ecology. --- Plant ecology. --- Forestry. --- Forestry management. --- Nature conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Plant Ecology. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Forestry Management. --- Nature Conservation. --- Forest conservation --- Revegetation --- Afforestation --- Tree planting --- Forest management --- Landscape ecology --- Restoration ecology --- Trees --- Landscape protection --- Reproduction