Abstract
South American forests contain a large fraction of the world’s biodiversity, but it is obvious that if current trends of deforestation continue unchanged over the next decades, native forests will decline to an unacceptable levels. A landscape perspective to sustainable forest management and conservation provides a holistic framework to build up future research and tools towards an adaptive forest management approach to preserve forest biodiversity value while promoting the sustainable use of these forests. In this chapter we stress the importance of a landscape ecology perspective towards managing forests. We focus mainly on the temperate forests of Argentina and Chile, but within a broader framework of other forests in the South American region. An overview of threats to native forests is presented, and then new perspectives of conservation and management alternatives are analyzed. Our aim is to provide specific examples where a landscape ecology holistic approach contributes to integrating biodiversity value with the need for forestry activities, and provide insights into forest conservation and management initiatives, comparing traditional and timber-oriented management with new emerging approaches, including contributions of a landscape ecology perspective.
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