Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

We expand the concept of "old growth" to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically rich grasslands, savannas, and open-canopy woodlands suffer from an image problem among scientists, policy makers, land manager...

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Vydané v:	Frontiers in ecology and the environment Ročník 13; číslo 3; s. 154 - 162
Hlavní autori:	Veldman, Joseph W, Buisson, Elise, Durigan, Giselda, Fernandes, G Wilson, Le Stradic, Soizig, Mahy, Gregory, Negreiros, Daniel, Overbeck, Gerhard E, Veldman, Robin G, Zaloumis, Nicholas P, Putz, Francis E, Bond, William J
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Ecological Society of America 01.04.2015 Wiley-Blackwell
Predmet:	Biodiversity and Ecology Biodiversity conservation CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS deforestation ecoregions ecosystem management ecosystems Environmental Sciences Environmental sciences & ecology Forest conservation Grassland fires Grassland management Grassland soils grasslands humans issues and policy Life sciences managers Natural grasslands Old growth forests Plants savannas Sciences de l’environnement & écologie Sciences du vivant scientists Tropical grasslands Woodland grasslands woodlands
ISSN:	1540-9295, 1540-9309, 1540-9309
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Shrnutí:	We expand the concept of "old growth" to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically rich grasslands, savannas, and open-canopy woodlands suffer from an image problem among scientists, policy makers, land managers, and the general public, that fosters alarming rates of ecosystem destruction and degradation. These biomes have for too long been misrepresented as the result of deforestation followed by arrested succession. We now know that grassy biomes originated millions of years ago, long before humans began deforesting. We present a consensus view from diverse geographic regions on the ecological characteristics needed to identify old-growth grasslands and to distinguish them from recently formed anthropogenic vegetation. If widely adopted, the old-growth grassland concept has the potential to improve scientific understanding, conservation policies, and ecosystem management.
Bibliografia:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 scopus-id:2-s2.0-84926643458
ISSN:	1540-9295 1540-9309 1540-9309
DOI:	10.1890/140270