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Forest Landscape Restoration

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Natural resources are neither uniformly nor randomly distributed across the Earth. Rather, they are commonly grouped within geomorphologic and climatic boundaries. These groups—“Ecological Zones”—are generally large and cross political and socioeconomic boundaries. It is cumbersome to coordinate effective management for many values across these large areas. Consequently, we subdivide ecological zones into smaller areas and then further subdivide these, creating a hierarchy of sizes for management (Fig. 3.1; Oliver 2003). The term “ecosystem” refers to an ecological grouping of biotic and abiotic factors at any scale (Chapin et al. 2002; Kimmins 2003).

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  1. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Chadwick Dearing Oliver & Kristofer Covey

  2. Department of Forestry and Wildland Resources, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA

    Aaron Hohl

  3. School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    David Larsen

  4. School of Environment and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    James B. McCarter

  5. Research and Development Center, United States Coast Guard, New London, CT, USA

    Andrew Niccolai

  6. Harris Center for Conservation Education, Hancock, NH, USA

    Jeremy Wilson

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Oliver, C.D. et al. (2012). Landscape Management. In: Stanturf, J., Lamb, D., Madsen, P. (eds) Forest Landscape Restoration. World Forests, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5326-6_3

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