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Conceptual Framework and Course Overview Joern Fischer Week 1, Lecture 2, 22 July 2009 ENVS 8002 – Biodiversity Conservation in Modified Landscapes The Fenner School of Environment and Society

Welcome, again! ,[object Object],[object Object]

Some of David’s key messages ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

David mentioned “the sustainability gap” Fischer et al. 2008. TREE 22, 621-624

Today’s lecture ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Biodiversity loss ,[object Object],[object Object]

Conceptual framework: background ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Bunnell, F. L. 1999. Let's kill a panchreston: giving fragmentation meaning. Pages vii-xiii in J. A. Rochelle, L. A. Lehman, and J. Wisnewski, editors. Forest fragmentation - wildlife and management implications. Brill, Leiden.

Background ,[object Object],[object Object]

Bennett, A.F. 1990b. Habitat Corridors: Their Role in Wildlife Management and Conservation. Department of Conservation and Environment, Melbourne. Saunders, D.A., Hobbs, R.J., Arnold, G.W., 1993. The Kellerberrin project on fragmented landscapes: a review of current information. Biological Conservation 64, 185-192. Shafer, C.L. 1990. Nature Reserves: Island Theory and Conservation Practice. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. Primack, R.B. 1993. Essentials of Conservation Biology . Sinauer Associates Inc. Sunderland, Massachusetts. Smith, D.S. and Hellmund, P.C. (Eds) 1993. Ecology of Greenways: Design and Function of Linear Conservation Areas. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Webb, N.R. and Haskins, L.E. 1980. An ecological surveys of heathlands in the Poole Basin, Dorset, England, in 1978. Biological Conservation, 17, 153-165.

S. McIntyre, R. Hobbs, Conservation Biology 13 , 1282 (1999). S. McIntyre, R. Hobbs, Conservation Biology 13 , 1282 (1999).

S. McIntyre, R. Hobbs, Conservation Biology 13 , 1282 (1999). R. T. T. Forman, Land mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995).

J. A. Foley et al. , Science 309 , 570 (Jul 22, 2005). Scaling Up

J. A. Foley et al. , Science 309 , 570 (Jul 22, 2005). J. M. Hoekstra, T. M. Boucher, T. H. Ricketts, C. Roberts, Ecology Letters 8 , 23 (Jan, 2005).

Woodlands and Grasslands: Typical Biomes Under Pressure J. M. Hoekstra, T. M. Boucher, T. H. Ricketts, C. Roberts, Ecology Letters 8 , 23 (Jan, 2005).

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Landscape Modification is not a Random Process

Consequences ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Conceptualising landscapes ,[object Object],[object Object]

Conceptual Landscape Models ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Islands and Fragments ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Photo by Richard Hobbs Island biogeography: R. H. MacArthur, E. O. Wilson, The theory of island biogeography (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967). Application to terrestrial systems: J. M. Diamond, Biological Conservation 7, 129 (1975). Patch-matrix-corridor model: R. T. T. Forman, Landscape Ecology 10, 133 (1995).

Why the focus on patches? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Figure 9.2. Examples of species-area curves. Top: Plants in Great Britain showing values for sub-areas starting with the county of Surrey (redrawn from Rosenzweig 1995). Second from top: Native plant species from around the world (redrawn from Gaston and Spicer [2004]). Second from bottom: Benthic macrofauna in the Arctic Ocean (redrawn from Gaston and Spicer [2004]). Bottom: Land snails on the Aegean Islands (redrawn from Gaston and Spicer [2004]). (From Lindenmayer and Fischer, 2006)

Variegated Landscapes ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Photo by David Lindenmayer

Species-specific Models A. D. Manning, D. B. Lindenmayer, H. A. Nix, Oikos 104 , 621 (2004). J. Fischer, D. B. Lindenmayer, Oikos 112 , 473 (2006). ,[object Object]

Strengths and Weaknesses ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some of the key themes covered in this course

How we’ll run this course ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lectures ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Tutorials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Discussion forums ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Field trip ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Brown Treecreeper (Tom Green, photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au) Chalinolobus gouldii (L. Lumsden,www.environment.gov.au )

Practical sessions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What you’ll get out of this course ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Proposed assessment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

At last … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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