Suchergebnisse

1: Origins, management and ecological characteristics of British woodlands -- 1. Original natural woodland -- 2. Ancient woodland and traditional management -- 3. Ecological characteristics of ancient woods -- 4. High forest management -- 5. Recent secondary woodland -- 6. Long-term changes in the woodland flora -- 2: Types of semi-natural woodland in Britain -- 7. Woodland classification -- 8. Types of ancient semi-natural woodland -- 9. Management variants of stand types -- 10. Succession and stand types -- 11. British woodland types in a European context -- 3: Woodland nature conservation -- 12. Objectives and priorities of nature conservation in British woodlands -- 13. Observation and recording in woodlands -- 14. Assessment of woodlands for nature conservation -- 4: Management for nature conservation -- 15. Planning for nature conservation within forestry -- 16. Pattern and redistribution of woodland -- 17. Nature conservation aspects of woodland management -- 18. Management of semi-natural woodland -- 19. Integration of nature conservation with other objectives of woodland management -- 20. British woodland management in a European context.

Kartik Shanker is a biologist at the Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has published on sea turtle biology and marine conservation and is the immediate past President of the International Sea Turtle Society. He edits the journal Conservation and Society, based in India and offering analyses of global conservation politics and ecology which foreground the perspectives of the global South. This journal focuses on communication not only between researchers and advocates working in the ecological sciences and in social science and humanities, but in fostering communication between academic researchers on the one hand and community and NGO audiences on the other.

This interview was conducted by Nick McClean during Kartik's visit to Sydney for the Cities Nature Justice conference, held 10 – 12 December, 2008, at the University of Technology Sydney. Nick McClean is currently undertaking PhD research at ANU on comparative approaches to conservation in Australia and India.

I. The Context: The Highly Fragmented Midwest -- 1. Forest Communities of the Midwestern United States -- 2. Savanna and Open-Woodland Communities -- 3. The Tallgrass Prairie Mosaic -- 4. Wetlands in the Midwest with Special Reference to Illinois -- II. Problems and Case Studies -- 5. Conservation in the Context of Non-Indigenous Species -- 6. Native Pests: The Impact of Deer in Highly Fragmented Habitats -- 7. Mammals of Illinois and the Midwest: Ecological and Conservation Issues for Human-Dominated Landscapes -- 8. Effectiveness of Small Nature Preserves for Breeding Birds -- 9. Impacts of Fragmentation on Midwestern Aquatic Organisms -- 10. Midwestern Fire Management: Prescribing a National Process in an Unnatural Landscape -- 11. Community Succession, Diversity, and Disturbance in the Central Hardwood Forest -- 12. The Biogeography of and Habitat Loss on Hill Prairies -- 13. Fragmentation and the Role of Seed Banks in Promoting Persistence in Isolated Populations of Collinsia verra -- 14. Effects of Livestock Grazing on Forest Habitats -- III. Conservation Strategies in Action -- 15. Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the Urban/Rural Interface -- 16. The Value of Small Preserves in Chronically Fragmented Landscapes -- 17. Nature Preserves, Natural Areas, and the Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Species in Illinois -- 18. An Aid to Conservation Strategy in Illinois: The Critical Trends Assessment Project -- 19. The History of Natural Areas Programs in Wisconsin.