Forest Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability

• Other Authors: Ganatsas, Petros (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; forest land change; land change patterns; Civilian Control Zone; DMZ; sustainable development goals (SDGs); forest management; structural equation modeling (SEM); factor analysis; Ecological resilience; fire disturbance; forest landscape; The Great Xing'an Mountains; LANDIS; Bornean tropical rain forests; ecosystem services enhancement; forest certification; forest intactness; Forest Stewardship Council (FSC); reduced-impact logging; remote sensing; sustainable forest management; tree-community composition; arid-hot valley; vegetation; environmental factors; reservoir region; Brazilian Atlantic Forest; ecosystem conservation; Principal Component Analysis; Rio Canoas State Park; spatial analysis; 1961-1990 normal period; spatial interpolation; geostatistics; ecological mathematics; endangered plant; ex situ conservation; plant reintroduction; seed germination; seedling propagation; afforestation; birch stands; carbon stock; dehydrogenase activity; Aichi Biodiversity Targets; biodiversity conservation; dry deciduous forest; human well-being; Madagascar; Paris Climate Agreement; Sustainable Development Goals; small forest landowner; sclerophyllous forest; multivariate analysis; AHP; Delphi Method; GIS; MCDA; Sustainable Development; Wetlands
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One of the highest priorities for human societies in the 21st century, under the challenges of predicted great environmental changes, is to conserve all kinds of biodiversity across the planet. Among all the biota that exist on Earth, forest ecosystems demonstrate a high degree of biodiversity, bein...