From mlee@consecol.org Fri Jan 31 19:43:35 2003
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:10:35 -0500 (EST)
From: mlee@consecol.org
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To: conservation-ecology@consecol.org
Subject: New Issue Announcement (Dec 2002)

Dear Conservation Ecology subscribers,

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 6, Issue 2 of
Conservation Ecology:

http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol6/iss2/index.html

As Editors-in-Chief, Lance Gunderson and Carl Folke point out, this
issue is notable for its "...diverse set of contributions that range
from those dominated by a strongly ecologic flavor to those that
explore the human dimensions of environmental problems". In this issue
we also reveal the winners of the Ralf Yorque manuscript competition
and announce the opening of the 2003 competition.  Most papers in this
volume are offered in both html format and pdf format.  Pdf versions
of all volume 6 issue 2 manuscripts will be available in the weeks to
come.

We encourage thoughtful feedback on current and past articles. Please
use the "Respond to this article" feature at the bottom of each
article to make a comment or initiate a discussion.

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CONSERVATION ECOLOGY
TABLE OF CONTENTS - Volume 6, Issue 2
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EDITORIAL 

In Memory of Mavericks
-Lance Gunderson, Carl Folke, Michelle Lee and C. S. Holling 
    
SYNTHESIS 

The Value of Tropical Forest to Local Communities: Complications,
Caveats, and Cautions
-Douglas Sheil and Sven Wunder

Ecological States and the Resilience of Coral Reefs
-Tim McClanahan, Nicholas Polunin and Terry Done 
 
        
REPORTS 

Extinction Risk in Successional Landscapes Subject to Catastrophic
Disturbances
-David Boughton and Urmila Malvadkar [see additional extinction
research in vol6 iss1]

A Generic, Computer-assisted Method for Rapid Vegetation
Classification and Survey: Tropical and Temperate Case Studies [part
of the Ralf Yorque Memorial Competition]
-Andrew Gillison  

Are Long Fire-free Periods Needed to Maintain the Endangered,
Fire-recruiting Shrub Arctostaphylos morroensis (Ericaceae)?
-Dennis Odion and Claudia Tyler 

Long-Term Fire Regime Estimated from Soil Charcoal in Coastal
Temperate Rainforests
-Ken Lertzman, Daniel Gavin, Douglas Hallett, Linda Brubaker, Dana
Lepofsky and Rolf Mathewes

Assessing Biodiversity from Space: an Example from the Western Ghats, India
-Kamaljit Bawa, Joseph Rose, K.N. Ganeshaiah, Narayani Barve,
M.C. Kiran and R. Umashaanker

Landscape Connectivity as a Function of Scale and Organism Vagility in
a Real Forested Landscape
-Robert G. D'Eon, Susan M. Glenn, Ian Parfitt and Marie-Josie Fortin  

Cost-effective Sampling Design Applied to Large-scale Monitoring of
Boreal Birds
-Matthew Carlson and Fiona Schmiegelow  

Assumptions about Ecological Scale and Nature Knowing Best Hiding in
Environmental Decisions
-R. Bruce Hull, David P. Robertson, David Richert, Erin Seekamp and
Gregory J. Buhyoff

The Influence of the Academic Conservation Biology Literature on
Endangered Species Recovery Planning
-John Stinchcombe, Leonie C. Moyle, Brian R. Hudgens, Philip L. Bloch,
Sathya Chinnadurai and William F. Morris

>From Satellite Imagery to Peatland Vegetation Diversity: How Reliable
Are Habitat Maps?
-Monique Poulin, Denis Careau, Line Rochefort and Andri Desrochers  
        
INSIGHT 
Use of Landscape-level River Signatures in Conservation Planning: a
South African Case Study
-Dirk Roux, Ferdy de Moor, Jim Cambray and Helen Barber-James  

Fragmentation: Is the Message Clear?
-John A. Bissonette and Ilse Storch  

The Managed Recession of Lake Okeechobee, Florida: Integrating Science
and Natural Resource Management
-Alan Steinman, Karl Havens and Lewis Hornung  
        
BOOK REVIEW 

Russell, E. 2001. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with
Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, New York, USA.
-Michelle Steen-Adams  

Roling, N. G., and M. A. E. Wagemakers, editors. 1998. Facilitating
Sustainable Agriculture: Participatory Learning and Adaptive
Management in Times of Environmental Uncertainty. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, New York, USA
-Kristen Blann  

Dieckmann,U., J. A. J. Metz, M. W. Sabelis, and K. Sigmund,
editors. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of
Virulence Management. Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
-Pim Martens 
 
       
DISCUSSION 
How to Start an International Program to Deal with Invasive Species?
-Martin Nuqez  

Monitoring and Enforcement Must Back Any Policy Incentive Pertaining
to Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Management
-Pradyumna Amatya and Nicole McCoy  

R Producers and Consumers of Research
-Wayne Tyson  

Consuming Research and Closing the Gap
-Philip Hoffman 
 
R Functionally Dominant Herbivores as Keystone Species
-Jeff W. Higdon  

Herbivores as Keystone Predators
-Robert D. Davic
 
Impacts of Grazing
-Gary Jones 

Impacts of Grazing on Semiarid Rangelands
-Brian Walker 
 
Priorities for Priorities: Where to Locate the First FLONAs?
-William E. Magnusson  

Socioeconomic Concerns
-Natasha Grist  

Ruminants and Rodents
-Gary Jones 

Reflections on Integration, Interaction, and Community
-Jana Sebelova