Monarch Mexican Migration and land management
patrick foley
patfoley at csus.edu
Tue Nov 18 14:27:41 EST 2003
With Paul's citation of Jurgen Hoth's ideas (where was this published
Paul?), we reach a higher level of debate.
Apparently Paul concedes that some deforestation is going on in the
oyamel forest, and considers this a good thing. I will agree with Paul
and Jurgen that natural forests are mosaics of patches in various stages
of succession. And that this heterogeneity is a good thing for the
biodiversity and for various ecosystem processes, including insect pest
and pathogen regulation.
Next we need to determine the historical landscape heterogeneity
pattern, and develop land management practices to imitate it.
But isn't this what Brower et al. 2002 Conservation Biology is all
about? Maybe we should also concede that Brower and his team are doing
_something_ useful.
Patrick
patfoley at csus.edu
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