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Problems and Prospects of the Conservation of Biodiversity in Germany

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Germany is a small, densely populated country with necessity for agriculture, significant pressure on natural habitats and a high proportion of manmade open habitats. About 80.000 species of plants and animals exist in a diverse landscape with much anthropogenic disturbance of different kinds. Few endemic species occur; no hot spots of species diversity had developed. Thus the Central European region is a complex, in many parts steadily changing container filled with the biota. The population dynamics of the species is largely shaped by habitat fragmentation and by a dynamic subpopulation structure with distribution on habitat islands and by much influence of disturbance and stochasticity. I suggest a triple approach to the preservation of biodiversity — conservation of species and of habitats (with the problem of defining priorities and designing action plans) and a landscape/habitat/species or >comprehensive< approach with the focus on the maintenance and enhancement of the diversity of the (natural and cultural) landscape.

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Schaefer, M. (2005). Problems and Prospects of the Conservation of Biodiversity in Germany. In: Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27138-4_6

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