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This workshop took place in Poland from May 16-24, 1994, with the first half of Be meetings held at the Bieszczady Biosphere Reserve, while the second half took place at the Tatry Biosphere Reserve. By holding Be meetings in two different biosphere reserves, the ten NAS participants were able to experience first hand some of the unique aspects of biodiversity conservation problems in Central and Eastern Europe, while at the same time a split venue made the meetings accessible to a larger number of European participants.
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Woj Wojciechowski (Director, Bieszczady National Park and Biosphere Reserve)
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A mature forest can provide such a matrix if harvesting methods of long-rotations, mixed species, and uneven ages occupy about one-~ird of the landscape. Some of the unusual, distinctive features of old forests cannot be duplicated in young, managed ecosystems, including a preponderance of predators based on a food chain dependent on decaying wood from the dead trees, which are usually removed in a sanitary forest operation.
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Arguing that the era of national parks is over and that they have fulfilled their historic mission, these authors address how biosphere reserves seek to overcome some of the continuing problems mentioned above of fragmented ecosystems and impacts of degraded areas surrounding the parks. UNESCO, under the MAB program, seeks to enhance the viability of strictly protected areas by the creation of buffer zones and transition zones which will balance ecological requirements with the economic needs of people living in these areas.
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Victor Perfenov and Michael Pikulik and by Dr. Zuzanna Guziova highlight some of the specific problems of biodiversity conservation in Central Europe.
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During the workshop, the presentation of these case studies was accompanied by a discussion on "Science for Parks and Parks for Science." The value of information gained through scientific investigation for the management and protection of national parks has long been recognized -- Science for Parks. Science for parks encompasses two types of research: research to characterize and gain understanding of park resources and research to develop and implement effective management practices.
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Others contended that enhanced wildlife management in transition and buffer zones is needed because of Me potential economic gains to local communities; for example, $2.5 million (U.S.) was generated last year Trough the sale of hunting licenses in the area of Bieszczady National Park and Biosphere Reserve.
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MONITORING AND MEASURING THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE IN BORDER AREAS As all ecosystems are affected to valeting degrees by anthropogenic physical and chemical stresses, assessing their overall effect on biological diversity and ecosystem processes necessarily requires monitoring over a network of sites distributed throughout the range of the effects. In addition to documenting the diversity of life in these border areas, the papers in section five illustrate the variety of monitoring programs All of the monitoring programs addressed here concentrate on biological diversity, and the participants strongly recommend that biodiversity monitoring be a cornerstone of any environmental information network.
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As a result, the indicator study developed confidence in population projections that are difficult in a community-level study and impossible with a biogeographic survey. However the combination of labor intensity and ability to conduct such large scale consumptive sampling makes this study essentially unreplicable, and the results will certainly be used to estimate root relations far outside the original study site.
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Cross-boundary data are not useful for landscape analyses unless they are easily accessible to the widely separated investigators. Biodiversity data for about 20 Central European Biosphere Reserves is now disseminated over Internet.
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