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Restoring Disturbed Landscapes

Name: Restoring Disturbed Landscapes
Brand: ISLAND PRESS
SKU: 9781597265805
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By David J Tongway, John A Ludwig
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Format: HARDBACK
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Pages: 216

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Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. The book presents a five-step, adaptive procedure for restoring landscapes that is supported by proven principles and concepts of ecological science.

Written by restoration experts with a wealth of experience teaching restoration principles and techniques to practitioners and would-be practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, the book offers:

an outline of a science-based, ecologically sound approach to restoration discussion of the conceptual framework and rigorous principles that underlie the approach case studies of two types of restoration projects (restoring mined landscapes and restoring damaged rangelands) that illustrate how the approach, framework, and four key principles for restoring landscapes have been implemented a variety of scenarios that represent typical restoration problems and how those problems can be handled indicators for monitoring and how landscape function can be tracked and analyzed as part of a comprehensive monitoring program.

Abundantly illustrated with photos and figures that clearly explain concepts outlined in the book, Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is an engaging and accessible work designed specifically for restoration practitioners with limited training or experience in the field. It tells restorationists where to start, what information they need to acquire, and how to apply this information to their specific situations.

Foreword \ James Aronson
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I. A Function-Based Approach to Restoring Disturbed Landscapes
Chapter 1. Our Approach to Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: Five-Step Adaptive Procedure
Chapter 2. A Framework for How Landscapes Function
Chapter 3. Principles for Restoring Landscape Functionality

PART II. Case Studies on Restoring Landscapes: Mine Sites and Rangelands
Chapter 4. Restoring Mined Landscapes
Chapter 5. Restoring Damaged Rangelands

PART III. Scenarios for Restoring Landscapes: Mine Sites, Rangelands, Farmlands, and Roadsides
Chapter 6. Restoration of Mine-Site Waste-Rock Dumps
Chapter 7. Restoration of Mine-Site Tailings Storage facilities
Chapter 8. Restoring Landscapes after Open-Cut Coal Mining
Chapter 9. Restoring Rangelands with an Overabundance of Shrubs
Chapter 10. Renewing Pastureland Functions Using Tree Belts
Chapter 11. Restoration of Former Farmlands near Urban Developments
Chapter 12. Restoring Verges after Road Construction

PART IV. Monitoring Indicators
Chapter 13. Landscape Function Analysis: An Overview and Landscape Organization Indicators
Chapter 14. Landscape Function Analysis: Soil-Surface Indicators
Chapter 15. Ephemeral Drainage-Line Assessments: Indicators of Stability
Chapter 16. Vegetation Assessments: Structure and Habitat Complexity Indicators
Chapter 17. Reflections on Restoring Landscapes: A Function-Based Adaptive Approach

References
Glossary
Further reading
About the Authors
Index

"...the authors succeeded in their objective. That is, to make the reader think more about function or process and less about the simple presence or abundance of species and life forms as measures of restoration success."

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