Contributors, vii Foreword, x Preface, xii Acknowledgments, xiv SECTION 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, 1 JOHN A. WIENS 1 Setting the stage: theoretical and conceptual background of historical range of variation, 3 WILLIAM H. ROMME, JOHN A. WIENS, AND HUGH D. SAFFORD 2 Development of historical ecology concepts and their application to resource management and conservation, 19 WAYNE PADGETT, BARBARA SCHRADER, MARY MANNING, AND TIMOTHY TEAR SECTION 2 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES, 29 HUGH D. SAFFORD 3 Challenges in the application of historical range of variation to conservation and land management, 32 GREGORY D. HAYWARD, THOMAS T. VEBLEN, LOWELL H.
SURING, AND BOB DAVIS 4 Historical ecology, climate change, and resource management: can the past still inform the future? 46 HUGH D. SAFFORD, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, NICOLE E. HELLER, AND JOHN A. WIENS 5 What is the scope of "history" in historical ecology? Issues of scale in management and conservation, 63 JOHN A. WIENS, HUGH D. SAFFORD, KEVIN MCGARIGAL, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND MARY MANNING 6 Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation, 76 GREGORY J.
NOWACKI, DOUGLAS W. MACCLEERY, AND FRANK K. LAKE 7 Conservation and resource management in a changing world: extending historical range of variation beyond the baseline, 92 STEPHEN T. JACKSON SECTION 3 MODELING HISTORIC VARIATION AND ITS APPLICATION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUTURE VARIABILITY, 111 ROBERT E. KEANE 8 Creating historical range of variation (HRV) time series using landscape modeling: overview and issues, 113 ROBERT E. KEANE 9 Modeling historical range of variability at a range of scales: an example application, 128 KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND WILLIAM H. ROMME SECTION 4 CASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS, 147 GREGORY D. HAYWARD 10 Regional application of historical ecology at ecologically defi ned scales: forest ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range, 149 THOMAS T.
VEBLEN, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND CLAUDIA REGAN 11 Incorporating concepts of historical range of variation in ecosystem-based management of British Columbia''s coastal temperate rainforest, 166 ANDY MACKINNON AND SARI C. SAUNDERS 12 Incorporating HRV in Minnesota national forest land and resource management plans: a practitioner''s story, 176 MARY SHEDD, JIM GALLAGHER, MICHAEL JIMÉNEZ, AND DUANE LULA 13 Applying historical fire-regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies, 194 THOMAS E. DEMEO, FREDERICK J. SWANSON, EDWARD B. SMITH, STEVEN C. BUTTRICK, JANE KERTIS, JEANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER D. RINGO, AMY WALTZ, CHRIS ZANGER, CHERYL A.
FRIESEN, AND JOHN H. CISSEL 14 Using historical ecology to inform wildlife conservation, restoration, and management, 205 BETH A. HAHN AND JOHN L. CURNUTT 15 River floodplain restoration experiments offer a window into the past, 218 RAMONA O. SWENSON, RICHARD J. REINER, MARK REYNOLDS, AND JAYMEE MARTY 16 Streams past and future: fluvial responses to rapid environmental change in the context of historical variation, 232 DANIEL A. AUERBACH, N. LEROY POFF, RYAN R.
MCSHANE, DAVID M. MERRITT, MATTHEW I. PYNE, AND THOMAS K. WILDING 17 A framework for applying the historical range of variation concept to ecosystem management, 246 WILLIAM H. ROMME, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, AND CLAUDIA REGAN SECTION 5 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, 263 JOHN A. WIENS 18 Ecological history guides the future of conservation: lessons from Africa, 265 A.R.
E. SINCLAIR 19 Ecological history has present and future ecological consequences - case studies from Australia, 273 DAVID LINDENMAYER 20 A view from the past to the future, 281 KEITH J. KIRBY 21 Is the historical range of variation relevant to rangeland management? 289 BRANDON T. BESTELMEYER 22 Knowing the Fennoscandian taiga: ecohistorical lessons, 297 YRJÖ HAILA SECTION 6 CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE, 305 23 Reflections on the relevance of history in a nonstationary world, 307 JULIO L. BETANCOURT 24 The growing importance of the past in managing ecosystems of the future, 319 HUGH D. SAFFORD, JOHN A. WIENS, AND GREGORY D. HAYWARD Index, 329 Colour plate pages fall between pp.
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