Regal Fritillary

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Mon Aug 21 05:19:17 EDT 2000


Norbert,
  Is manipulation of a habitat in favor of one or several of its component
species any more natural or ethical than our present manipulation of all
habitat for human economic short-term gain?
  This is basically a restatement of the oxymoron "wildlife management".
........Chris Durden


At 11:45  21/08/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Agreed, well mostly :-)  The only thing I would add is that in some
>ecosystems it is not enough to leave the habitat alone.  Rather, some
>instigated natural disturbance or emulation of natural disturbance is needed
>to prevent natural succession from changing the habitat into a condition
>that is no longer suitable for the species of interest.  
>
 


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