Landscape ecology in forest management and conservation : challenges and solutions for global change /

This book covers the entire suite of analytical forest management science in a landscape ecology framework. But this scope might well be the problem. Readers learn in a science-based fashion that most landscapes are either overcut or changed from heterogeneous to single-species forests. Their remaining old-growth wilderness areas are also under threat of invasion by alien species, fragmentation, and climate change effects. However, many of the 60-plus international investigators have addressed, but not resolved, the issue that a modern multiuse paradigm means pressures from all ends. On the good side, the book includes holistic, proactive, model-based chapters, often focusing on climate change scenarios and watersheds. Many tables and literature references are powerful reinforcements of the topics. This reviewer especially liked the chapters using visualizations, those on strategic conservation planning and connectivity, and specific country overviews (most broad EU and US views are missing; Canadian overview is not realistic). The book does represent a shift from "timber only" to more landscape-scale views and thus inclusions of humans. It covers many concepts and global aspects well, but there is not enough on conservation and the negative effects of globalization. An expanded discussion of new concepts for truly achieving worldwide sustainability would have been helpful. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional audiences. F. Huettmann University of Alaska