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Can We Maintain Biological and Ecological Integrity?

Can We Maintain Biological and Ecological Integrity? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Research Laboratory 200 SW 35th Street Corvallis, O R 97333, U S A . Community-level conservation has become more dmicult lately, not only because natural areas are more difficult to find, but because the question of what a community is has become more complicated. A community used to be considered a collection of species that one could reliably associate with a given climate and habitat type. Of course, H. A. Gleason and other individualistic ecologists challenged this organismic view long ago ( e g , Gleason 1926). But that didn’t stop conservationists, who proceeded to target for preservation a broad spectrum of natural areas, based on their communitylevel characteristics. Much of the early effort in the Americas was coordinated by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). In 1926, the Committee published the Naturalist’s Guide to the Americas (Shelford 1926). In 1946, the Committee split from the ESA to form the Ecologists’ Union, which was reorganized as The Nature Conservancy in 1950. A major concern of these ecologist-conservationists was to preserve examples of the native biological communities of America. The community-level Conservation strategy has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

Can We Maintain Biological and Ecological Integrity?

NOSS, REED F.
Conservation Biology , Volume 4 (3) – Sep 1, 1990
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Research Laboratory 200 SW 35th Street Corvallis, O R 97333, U S A . Community-level conservation has become more dmicult lately, not only because natural areas are more difficult to find, but because the question of what a community is has become more complicated. A community used to be considered a collection of species that one could reliably associate with a given climate and habitat type. Of course, H. A. Gleason and other individualistic ecologists challenged this organismic view long ago ( e g , Gleason 1926). But that didn’t stop conservationists, who proceeded to target for preservation a broad spectrum of natural areas, based on their communitylevel characteristics. Much of the early effort in the Americas was coordinated by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). In 1926, the Committee published the Naturalist’s Guide to the Americas (Shelford 1926). In 1946, the Committee split from the ESA to form the Ecologists’ Union, which was reorganized as The Nature Conservancy in 1950. A major concern of these ecologist-conservationists was to preserve examples of the native biological communities of America. The community-level Conservation strategy has been

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