caa a22 4500 469074728 CHVBK 20180323132932.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00133309 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00133309 Baker William Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, 82071, Laramie, WY, USA aut The landscape ecology of large disturbances in the design and management of nature reserves [Elektronische Daten] [William Baker] Large disturbances such as fires and floods are landscape processes that may alter the structure of landscapes in nature reserves. Landscape structure may in turn influence the viability of species and the functioning of ecosystems. Past reserve design and management strategies have been focussed on species and ecosystems rather than on landscape-scale processes, such as disturbance. An essential feature of a natural disturbance regime is the variation in disturbance attributes (e.g., size, timing, intensity, spatial location). Although some past reserve management policies have included natural disturbances, perpetuating disturbance variation has not been the explicit goal of either reserve design or management. To design a reserve to perpetuate the natural disturbance process requires consideration of: (1) the size of the reserve in relation to maximum expected disturbance size, (2) the location of the reserve in relation to favored disturbance initiation and export zones and in relation to spatial variation in the disturbance regime, and (3) the feasibility of disturbance control at reserve boundaries, or in reserve buffers. Disturbance management possibilities are constrained by the design of the reserve and the reserve goals. Where a natural disturbance regime is not feasible, then it is important that the managed disturbance regime mimic historical variation in disturbance sizes and other attributes as well as possible. Manipulating structure on the landscape scale to restore landscapes thought to have been altered by historical disturbance control is premature given our understanding of spatial disturbance processes in landscapes. SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1992 disturbances nationallicence nature reserves nationallicence landscape ecology nationallicence management nationallicence Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/3(1992-09-01), 181-194 0921-2973 7:3<181 1992 7 10980 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133309 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133309 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Baker William Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, 82071, Laramie, WY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/3(1992-09-01), 181-194 0921-2973 7:3<181 1992 7 10980 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer