Riparian areas : Challenges and opportunities for conservation and sustainable forest management

These projects enhanced the et des Parcs • University of Lethbridge knowledge and understanding of many aspects of the boreal forest ecosystem, provided unique training • Government of Yukon Territory • University of Manitoba opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students and established a network of partnerships across Energy, Mines and Resources • University of New Brunswick Canada b [...] In many areas of the world, riparian areas are among among the most diverse the most diverse and productive habitats in a landscape due to the biotic and and productive habitats nutrient exchanges occurring between the surrounding landscape elements. [...] The primary goal disturbance-based of EBM is to maintain ecosystem health and function by considering the approaches be applied to consequences of activities at a full range of spatial scales, integrating aquatic and the management of terrestrial systems and making changes as required within an adaptive riparian and aquatic ecosystems? [...] For the edges of water example, the American Society of Fisheries defines riparian areas as “complex bodies to the edges of assemblages of organisms and their environments existing adjacent to and near upland communities. [...] One of the key objectives of SFM sustained yield, timber is the maintenance of a diverse set of forest values, including ecological, social focus to an SFM and economic elements, and the provision of forest-derived goods and services for approach.