ECOSYSTEM MONITORING , RESTORATION , AND MANAGEMENT IN HAWAI ' I : A SUMMARY Sheila
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The speakers in this session dealt with practical and philosophical approaches to the protection and management of Hawaiian ecosystems. Problems in monitoring and restoring ecosystems were considered; allowances for fundamental natural processes such as succession, cohort senescence, gene transfer and bottlenecks, and natural selection were discussed; and the immense problem of preserve design in the light of minimum population size, genetics, and other biological, sociological and economic constraints was considered. The need for more knowledge is apparent in all of these areas, but the demand for directed action to preserve what remains is immediate.
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