BILD 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ecosystem Management, No Surprises, Landscape Ecology
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Separated from rest of continent by inhospitable deserts and mountains: high level of threat due to habitat destruction, population pressure, easy to develop. Low public awareness of biotic novelty: weighing conflicting demands, conserving species often requires resolving conflicts, between the habitat needs of endangered species and human demands, landscape and regional conservation aim to sustain entire biotas. In recent years, conservation biology: has attempted to sustain the biodiversity of entire communities, ecosystems, and landscapes, one goal of landscape ecology, of which ecosystem management is part. Is to make biodiversity conservation part of land-use planning: the politics of conservation, endangered species conservation. Species by species approach: multi-species habitat planning, attempts to conserve large tracts with viable populations of most species, no surprises. In the contiguous 48 states, the county with the most endangered species is san diego county.
