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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