HR: 10:20h
AN: B31G-01 INVITED     [PDF]
TI: The Conservation Value of Human-Dominated Countryside
AU: * Daily, G C
EM: gdaily@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, Dept. Biological Sciences 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5020 United States
AB: The future of biodiversity and the benefits it supplies society depend largely on the conservation value of human-dominated 'countryside,' the growing fraction of Earth's unbuilt land surface whose ecosystem qualities are strongly influenced by humanity. I will report on the conservation value of tropical countryside for a variety of groups of organisms and ecosystem services. The work is based on species distributions and dynamics; remote sensing, radio telemetry, and GIS; and assessments of the ecosystem functions performed by diverse organisms. While conservation value appears high today in regions under low- and intermediate land-use intensity, the window of opportunity for securing this value is closing rapidly with on-going intensification of land use.
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 1699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4805 Biogeochemical cycles (1615)
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting