Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"

From a scientific point of view, the Juan Fernández islands contain one of the most interesting floras of the planet. Although protected as a National Park and a World Biosphere Reserve, 400 years of human interference have left deep traces in the native plant communities. Repeated burning, overexpl...

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Autores principales:	CUEVAS,JAIME G., VAN LEERSUM,GART
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2001
Materias:	conservation of flora Juan Fernández islands Robinson Crusoe island Alejandro Selkirk island restoration of flora
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2001000400016
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20010004000162014-05-22Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"CUEVAS,JAIME G.VAN LEERSUM,GART conservation of flora Juan Fernández islands Robinson Crusoe island Alejandro Selkirk island restoration of flora From a scientific point of view, the Juan Fernández islands contain one of the most interesting floras of the planet. Although protected as a National Park and a World Biosphere Reserve, 400 years of human interference have left deep traces in the native plant communities. Repeated burning, overexploitation of species, and the introduction of animal and plant plagues have taken 75 % of the endemic vascular flora to the verge of extinction. In 1997, Chile's national forest service (Corporación Nacional Forestal, CONAF) started an ambitious project, whose objective is the recovery of this highly complex ecosystem with a socio-ecological focus. Juan Fernández makes an interesting case, as the local people (600 persons) practically live within the park, therefore impeding the exclusion of the people from any conservation program. Secondly, the relatively small size of the archipelago (100 km²) permits the observation of the effects of whatever modification in the ecosystem on small scales in time and space. Thirdly, the native and introduced biota are interrelated in such a way that human-caused changes in one species population may provoke unexpected results amongst other, non-target species. The project mainly deals with the eradication or control of some animal and plant plagues, the active conservation and restoration of the flora and the inclusion of the local people in conservation planning. This article presents the park's general problems, the strategy proposed to resolve them as well as some preliminary results. This project shows the complexity of the conservation activities in practice, with diverse and complex interrelations and gaps in ecological knowledge. In this respect, the project may well serve as a model for similar programs in other placesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.74 n.4 20012001-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2001000400016en10.4067/S0716-078X2001000400016
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topic	conservation of flora Juan Fernández islands Robinson Crusoe island Alejandro Selkirk island restoration of flora
spellingShingle	conservation of flora Juan Fernández islands Robinson Crusoe island Alejandro Selkirk island restoration of flora CUEVAS,JAIME G. VAN LEERSUM,GART Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
description	From a scientific point of view, the Juan Fernández islands contain one of the most interesting floras of the planet. Although protected as a National Park and a World Biosphere Reserve, 400 years of human interference have left deep traces in the native plant communities. Repeated burning, overexploitation of species, and the introduction of animal and plant plagues have taken 75 % of the endemic vascular flora to the verge of extinction. In 1997, Chile's national forest service (Corporación Nacional Forestal, CONAF) started an ambitious project, whose objective is the recovery of this highly complex ecosystem with a socio-ecological focus. Juan Fernández makes an interesting case, as the local people (600 persons) practically live within the park, therefore impeding the exclusion of the people from any conservation program. Secondly, the relatively small size of the archipelago (100 km²) permits the observation of the effects of whatever modification in the ecosystem on small scales in time and space. Thirdly, the native and introduced biota are interrelated in such a way that human-caused changes in one species population may provoke unexpected results amongst other, non-target species. The project mainly deals with the eradication or control of some animal and plant plagues, the active conservation and restoration of the flora and the inclusion of the local people in conservation planning. This article presents the park's general problems, the strategy proposed to resolve them as well as some preliminary results. This project shows the complexity of the conservation activities in practice, with diverse and complex interrelations and gaps in ecological knowledge. In this respect, the project may well serve as a model for similar programs in other places
author	CUEVAS,JAIME G. VAN LEERSUM,GART
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author_sort	CUEVAS,JAIME G.
title	Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
title_short	Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
title_full	Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
title_fullStr	Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
title_full_unstemmed	Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"
title_sort	project "conservation, restoration, and development of the juan fernández islands, chile"
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2001
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Project "Conservation, Restoration, and Development of the Juan Fernández islands, Chile"

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