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Scientific method used to determine how adequately native plant and animal species and the existing network of conservation lands protects natural communities. Species and communities not adequately represented in existing conservation lands constitute conservation gaps. The idea is to identify these gaps and then eliminate them by establishing new reserves or changing land management practices.
Method of forest management in which trees, sometimes of a single species in a given stand, are maintained at about the same age and size and are harvested all at once. Compare uneven-aged management.
Deliberate alteration of a degraded habitat or ecosystem to restore as much of its ecological structure and function as possible.
Removal of trees from a forested area without adequate replanting.
Agreement in which a certain amount of foreign debt is canceled in exchange for local currency investments that will improve natural resource management or protect certain areas in the debtor country from harmful development.
Extremely hot forest fire that burns ground vegetation and treetops. Compare controlled burning, ground fire, surface fire.
Long areas of land that connect habitat that would otherwise become fragmented.
Deliberately set, carefully controlled surface fires that reduce flammable litter and decrease the chances of damaging crown fires. See ground fire, surface fire.
Method of timber harvesting in which all trees in a forested area are removed in a single cutting. Compare, seed-tree cutting, selective cutting, shelterwood cutting, strip cutting.
See old-growth forest.
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