Fauna, Flora, and Sensitive Habitat on Fort Leonard Wood, MO
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1428912827
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1428912827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Janet E. Sternburg
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Land managers of military installations are required to provide a natural environment for military training. At the same time they must meet the Army's commitment to conserving natural resources and threatened and endangered species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. To meet these goals, military land managers must gather information on plants, animals, and natural communities on their installations in order to make sound management decisions that conserve natural resources while maintaining training schedules. This study was conducted on Fort Leonard Wood (FLW), an Army installation of some 63,000 acres in the upper Ozarks of Missouri. The primary objective of the study was to survey for Federally and state-listed rare and endangered plant and animals and exemplary natural communities. Surveys were conducted for crayfish, freshwater mussels, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, plants, and exemplary natural communities between October 1993 and October 1995. No Federally endangered or threatened species were found on FLW during this survey; however, 24 species of conservation concern were located. Surveys of natural communities indicated that few high quality natural communities remain on this installation. Management strategies emphasizing landtype associations (i.e., bottomland forests, savanna, upland forests) were developed to enhance natural communities associated with these landtype associations.
Author: L.R. Walker
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1999-12-17
Total Pages: 881
ISBN-13: 0080550843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth's resources is hard to ignore. The ability of the Earth to support more humans is dependent on the ability of humans to manage natural resources wisely. Because disturbance alters resource levels, effective management requires understanding of the ecology of disturbance. This book is the first to take a global approach to the description of both natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes that physically impact the ground. Natural disturbances such as erosion, volcanoes, wind, herbivory, flooding and drought plus anthropogenic disturbances such as foresty, grazing, mining, urbanization and military actions are considered. Both disturbance impacts and the biotic recovery are addressed as well as the interactions of different types of disturbance. Other chapters cover processes that are important to the understanding of disturbance of all types including soil processes, nutrient cycles, primary productivity, succession, animal behaviour and competition. Humans react to disturbances by avoiding, exacerbating, or restoring them or by passing environmental legislation. All of these issues are covered in this book. Managers need better predictive models and robust data-collections that help determine both site-specfic and generalized responses to disturbance. Multiple disturbances have a complex effect on both physical and biotic processes as they interact. This book provides a wealth of detail about the process of disturbance and recovery as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge about disturbance theory, with extensive documentation.
Author: Arthur W. Allen
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781411335967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia N. Manley
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monitoring protocols are presented for: landbirds; raptors; small, medium and large mammals; bats; terrestrial amphibians and reptiles; vertebrates in aquatic ecosystems; plant species, and habitats.
Author: Graham K. Bryan
Publisher: Environment Canada
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 12
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