Conservation of Grassland Birds in an Urbanizing Landscape: A Historical Perspective

Habitat acquisition strategies for grassland birds in an urbanizing landscape.

Habitat protection for grassland birds is an important component of open space land acquisition in suburban Chicago. We use optimization decision models to develop recommendations for land protection and analyze tradeoffs between alternative goals. One goal is to acquire (and restore if necessary) as much grassland habitat as possible for a given budget. Because a viable habitat for grassland b...

An Approach to the Conservation of Cultural Landscape in Historical Village of Davan

  4 The historical fabric of Davan village is located near the city of Kazeroon, with physical features such as steppe gardening system, Stone architecture, with the ancient Sassanid period and ecological characteristics, beside with intangible values such as customs and particular dialects of the local people, that the result of the intelligent interaction of human with natur...

Conservation of grassland birds in the Northeast

A Landscape Analysis of Grassland Birds in a Valley Grassland-Oak Woodland Mosaic

While little research has been done on California grassland birds, their populations are thought to be declining due to habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation. We investigated the association between California grassland birds and their landscape-scale habitat matrix. The habitat is a mosaic of valley grassland with blue oak and coast live oak woodlands. In this study, we used logistic re...

Thoreau’s country: a historical–ecological perspective on conservation in the New England landscape

Our wood-lots, of course, have a history, and we may often recover it for a hundred years back, though we do not...Yet if we attended more to the history of our lots we should manage them more wisely. H.D. Thoreau. 16 October 1860. Henry Thoreau, the great New England writer, thinker and naturalist, devoted his career to observing, describing and interpreting (in some 2 million words in more th...