Theory and Design of Nature Reserves
The first task in designing a reserve must be to decide what that reserve is for - an example of my ``If you don't know where you're going you'll probably end up somewhere else'' principle. So what are the goals of a conservation reserve? Soulé and Simberloff [11] identified three reasons:
1. Conservation of large, intact, functioning ecosystems,
2. Conservation of areas with high biological diversity, and
3. Conservation of species or groups of species of special interest.
To these three reasons, I would add two more:
4. Conservation of significant natural communities.
5. Conservation of important ecosystem services.1
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Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
The translation was initiated by Kent Holsinger on 2005-11-04
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