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1. Here is the same search but with the number of words increased in Infobase Defaults to 10 both before and after CANADA Waterton Lakes National Park Canis lupus V very rare coyote C latrans cougar Felis concolor grizzly bear Ursus arctos horribilis American black bear U americanus ARGENTINA Reserva Natural de Vida Silvestre Laguna Blanca including short tailed chinchilla Chinchilla brevicaudata boliviana mountain lion Felis concolor and Andean cat F jacobita Birds include lesser rhea Pterocnemia ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera Laguna de Pozuelos Lagidium viscaccia leaf eared mouse Phyllotis darwini and puma Felis concolor Merino 1987 Tecchi et al 1989 ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera San Guillermo Lagidium viscacia and chinchilla Chinchilla brevicaudata and mountain lion Felis concolor Birds include Andean Condor Vultur gryphus lesser rhea Pteroicnemia pennata Viewing Maps and Charts To view maps Tab to the link token that looks like lt gt The text here will indicate which map or chart will be displayed Press Enter to display the map or chart Press Esc Return or the Space bar to return to the infobase You cannot print maps and charts from within the infobase However you may freely use the DOS computer graphics metafiles CGM which contain these graphics They may be imported into many graphics and word processing programs While viewing the graphic use the grey k2. Databases created by and using the Folio Views software are called infobases The terms infobase and database are used interchangeably in this documentation and in the help and manual files that are part of the program Folio Views is a product of the Folio Corporation 2155 North Freedom Boulevard Provo Utah 84604 United States Tel 1 801 344 3700 Folio Views is available for DOS Windows and the Macintosh The graphics viewer VCGM EXE is freeware written by Robert M Crawford Page ii UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Introduction The Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme launched in 1971 is a global programme of international scientific cooperation dealing with people environment interactions over the entire realm of bioclimatic and geographic situations of the biosphere from polar to tropical zones from islands and coastal areas to high mountain regions and from sparsely populated regions to dense human settlements Research under the MAB Programme is designed to solve practical problems of resource management and aims to fill significant gaps in the understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems and of the impact of different types of human interaction Key ingredients in the MAB Programme are the involvement of decision makers and local people in research projects training and demonstration at the field level and the bringing together of disciplines from the social biological and physical sci
3. PROVINCE 1 04 03 Canadian Taiga GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The reserve is situated in Eastern Canada Printer Installation 1 Select Print from the File menu or press Ctri PrintScreen at the main screen Select Install printer from the menu shown below by using the cursor keys and pressing Space to select the install option Note On this and other configuration screens the selected options are marked with a small dot or an x Print e Install printer Terminate printing Enter OK Esc Cancel UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 9 2 Then select the printer definition and port from the following screen INSTALL PRINTER PRINTER Epson SQ 2000 HP DeskJet HP LaserJet HP LaserJetII H LaserJetIIP IBM Proprinter XL Enter OK Esc Cancel Setting Defaults The default settings that come with the program should be satisfactory for most users However for users with other preferences or those running the database on a network two screens User Defaults and Infobase Defaults allow the user to change these settings The User Defaults screen affects the appearance colours positions and size of windows menus etc of the program The Infobase Defaults screen contains choices about what information is displayed before and after searches and the colours or attributes used to indicate bold underline etc text within windows To change either User or Infobase defaults select it from the Options men
4. Quick Help One line of quick context sensitive help will appear at the bottom of the screen unless you have zoomed so that the text occupies the entire screen This option can be switched on or off in the User Defaults screen under the Options menu Using the Folio Manual Infobase to Get Help There are several ways to use this manual to get help For specific information about any menu command highlight the command on the menu and press Fl e For an alphabetical list of commands press F1 C e For a list of tasks and instructions for accomplishing each task press F1 T For access to all sections of the user manual infobase press Fl M You may then use the links to go to relevant section or search the manual just as you would search the Biosphere Reserve Database by pressing Space and entering the words you are looking for and then pressing Enter To exit Help or any other command press Esc Depending on how many windows you have opened while in help you may have to press Esc several times Caution Pressing Esc when there is only one window open i e no search menu or command in progress will exit the program entirely Page 6 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Command Quick Reference This section contains an alphabetical list of commands with their corresponding keystrokes and should be helpful as a quick reference guide COMMAND File menu Help F1 menu Options menu Search menu Block
5. is covered with thick glacial deposits of sand clay gravel and boulders Glacial features include kettle holes meltwater channels morainal ridges and incised gorges and there are many shallow lakes The headwaters of 13 watersheds are contained in the park The climate is cool summer humid continental with mean January temperatures of 2 C and July temperatures of 16 C Annual precipitation is about 480mm VEGETATION The reserve is at the junction of three major ecosystems grasslands and two components of the boreal forest biome the aspen oak and aspen spruce ecosystems Forests cover about 78 of the park and about two thirds of their area is dominated by aspen Populus tremuloides either in pure or mixed stands reflecting earlier disturbance by logging and fires Other trees in the coniferous ecosystem include white spruce Picea lauca black spruce P mariana jack pine Pinus banksiana and balsam fir Abies balsamea The aspen oak ecosystem includes bur oak Quercus macrocarpa Manitoba maple Acer negundo mountain maple A spicatum green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica plum Prunus nigra chokecherry P virginiana and white elm Ulmus americana Grasslands are dominated by rough fescue Festuca scabrella with porcupine grass Stipa spartea and dwarf sedges Carex Spp Although grasslands occupy less than 1 of the reserve they exist as discrete units and the climax rough fescue community represents the eastern extent of its range and its presence
6. is of national importance due to the relative rarity of climax examples elsewhere Over 400 species of vascular plant have been recorded in the park 17 being rare in Manitoba FAUNA The reserve is a near complete natural food web and is a refuge surrounded by agricultural land The beaver Castor canadensis is abundant and some interesting small rodents such as the water shrew Sorex Page 20 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database alustris vagrant shrew S vagrans and northern lemming mouse Synaptamus borealis There are several carnivores including the wolf Canis lupus coyote C latrans black bear Ursus americanus and Canadian lynx Lynx lynx canadensis and ungulates such as moose Alces alces bison Bison bison mule deer Odocoileus hemionus and white tailed deer O virginianus Two hundred and thirty three species of birds have been recorded among them the bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus and osprey Pandion haliaetus which both nest in the park The fish species found in the park include pike Esox lucius lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis walleye Strizostedion vitreum vitreum lake trout Cristivomer namaycush rainbow trout Salmo gairdnerii and speckled trout Salvelinus fontinalis The area is internationally known for its diversity of Lepidoptera with 69 species of butterflies including 13 skippers recorded CULTURAL HERITAGE Artifacts up to 4 000 years old have been found and indicate that native peoples visi
7. of Biosphere Reserves Area ha Date v CANADA Press Enter to view location map Long Point Biosphere Reserve 27 000 1986 Mont St Hilaire 5 550 1978 Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve 207 240 1990 R serve de la biosph re de Charlevoix 460 000 1988 Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve 297 591 1986 Waterton Lakes National Park 52 597 1979 Page 4 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Using the Biosphere Reserve Database Basic Concepts Familiarity with these terms will help you to use the infobase Folio This is the basic unit of information Here it is the site sheet for a single biosphere reserve This is the same as a record in other databases View One or more folios retrieved for viewing or printing You can have one or more views present in different windows at any one time By default one of the views will be the complete database Subsets can be created by using the query tools Reference The information used to identify a single folio In this database it is a combination of the country and biosphere reserve names For example CANADA Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve Link A link between one part of the database and another related section Examples are the links between the list of sites and groups of all sites in a country and those used to display the appropriate maps Text links are displayed by an inverted triangle v and links to maps or graphics are shown by a double headed arrow lt gt Movi
8. the site sheet will be displayed References References are the one line identifiers that combine the country and site names They can be displayed either alone or with other options Markers When selected a will appear in the left margin of the display indicating the beginning of each folio site sheet Focus When selected only the search terms plus the adjacent words will be displayed You can specify how many words will be displayed before and after the search word s This number is set in the Focus section of the Infobase Defaults screen found under the Options menu see page 10 Highlight When selected the search terms will be highlighted UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 15 Options Text References Ctrl R Markers F9 Focus Ctrl F Highlight Zoom window Table Viewer Ctrl V Position size windows F8 User defaults Infobase defaults Usually you will want to see the full text which will appear like the Sample Site Sheet beginning on page 20 Here are examples of other options The results are from a search for felis concolor but not in the United States Twenty records are retrieved from the search If you display only the references the display will be of the following form CANADA Waterton Lakes National Park ARGENTINA Reserva Natural de Vida Silvestre Laguna Blanca ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera Laguna de Pozuelos ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera San G
9. Exit Go to DOS Print Save as Switch application Focus Highlight Infobase defaults Markers Position size window References Table viewer Text User defaults Zoom window And Exclusive Or Go to folio view Group Membership Group name Not Or Place highlighted item in query Search infobase UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database MENU File File File File File File Options Options Options Options Options Options Options Options Options Options Search Search Search Search Search Search Search Search Search QUICK KEY Alt F Fl Altt O Alt S Ctri B Shift F10 Ctri F1 Ctrl Print Screen Ctrl4 S Ctrl Shift F1 Ctrl F Ctri H Alt O I F9 F8 Ctrl R Ctrl V Ctrl T Alt O U Ctri Z Ctrl A Ctri E Ctrl G Alt S M Ctrl G Ctri N Ctrl O Ctri Enter Space Page 7 Mouse Usage Mouse usage is optional but fully supported The mouse may be used for the following tasks Pulling down menus and selecting commands Scrolling navigating through text Searching Search Screen Layout To start a new search press Space The database supports full boolean proximity searches and nesting Searching is not case sensitive See Tutorial section for examples of each of these types of searches or press F1 at this screen to view or search the manual WORDS RESULTS concessioners concessions conch concinna conclu
10. Thus the entry felis concolor will find all site Sheets that contain both felis AND concolor somewhere in the sheet The two words could be in entirely different sections of the site sheet If you want you can explicitly enter the amp operator but it is not necessary You will see the amp appear in the results window whether or not you enter it as a part of the query OR This operator requires that either of the words must appear somewhere in the site sheet Enter the or operator by pressing Ctrl O or by simply typing a forward slash between the words An or query of France Spain will find all sheets that contain either France OR Spain An important use of the or operator is to specify a list of synonyms i e lake river water will find sheets containing lake s river s or water Exclusive OR This is a variation of an or query that requires that either word but not both must be in the sheet Enter the exclusive or operator by pressing Ctrl E or by typing a The sample query of desert grassland will find all sheets that contain either desert OR grassland but not both desert AND grassland Page 14 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database NOT This operator provides for queries when you want all sheets containing the first word but not the second Enter it by pressing Ctrl N or by typing The example felis felis concolor will find al
11. User s Guide Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Man and the Biosphere Programme UNESCO SB Database compiled and produced by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE January 1994 Acknowledgements The production of the Folio infobase and the accompanying manual has only been possible through a committed team effort In particular the following are to be thanked for their outstanding effort and support UNESCO Division of Ecological Sciences for providing financial support and advice for this initiative WCMC Jerry Harrison John Easy Donald Gordon and a special thanks to Esther Byford for her tremendous effort in developing the biosphere reserve infobase Affiliates A special thanks to John McComb for his work in writing this manual and in providing technical advice on the development of the infobase Contents About this Database 2 22 AS AR AA Be wn ii lntrod ctiol bi ER OR Se AA Oe WEE SRS iii Bristallatlol 02 ii eR RR AE AD ROC Sed REE AC Rc ree qno BAR 1 Quick Start 2 oie gre tk CE RARA yee SOC XU No Te gaa GO TA 1 System Requirements ooo A RUE OES BAERS SHS 1 Installing on a Stand alone Computer celeres 1 Starting the Database ee ula AS A AAA AAA 2 Installing oria Network 66 2 iG SW NS EUER E Wu 2 Structure and Contents of Database lt lt eee ee tenes 4 Using the Biosphere Reserve Database leere
12. ada 1977 A Master Plan for Riding Mountain National Park Parks Canada 1980 Riding Mountain National Park Conservation Plan Parks Canada 1984 Riding Mountain National Park Resource Description and Analysis DATE Revised August 1986 Page 22 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Foreign Language Characters The following table lists foreign language characters that may be found in the database You may enter these characters when doing a search by holding down the Alt key and entering the decimal code on the numeric keypad Char Code Char Code Char Code C 128 i 139 150 129 i 140 151 130 i 141 y 152 131 142 153 132 143 154 133 144 160 134 145 161 135 E 146 162 136 147 163 137 6 148 164 e 138 149 N 165 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 23
13. atabases for biosphere reserves are currently being planned by the UNESCO Secretariat in collaboration with WCMC These include databases on species habitats and ecosystems covered by biosphere reserves on going research and development projects bibliography of research reports and publications directory of scientists and institutions digital Geographic Information System atlas of biosphere reserves and a database of biosphere reserve background documents The presentation of biosphere reserve information in hard copy format is enhanced through the use of text retrieval systems Consequently the Folio Views infobase that is subsequently described has been chosen to enable a relatively straight forward search and retrieval of relevant materials This is particularly useful given the volume of information on biosphere reserves in the form of text descriptions graphics and maps Page iv UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Installation Quick Start 1 To install the program insert disk 1 in drive and type A load Follow the instructions on the screen To run the program type biores Extensive on line help and tutorials are available by pressing Fl System Requirements In order for you to install and use this text database infobase successfully your system should contain 1 An IBM PC XT or compatible Faster processors 80386 or 80486 will provide better performance but the infobase will run succe
14. ded concolor concomitant concrete concretion concurrence concolor CCC QUERY ps concolor Ent er 0K 31 Matches Esc Cancel felis 89 amp 31 concolor 37 In the above sample search for felis and concolor the number of hits is immediately displayed in the Results box as soon as the search word s have been entered Note that the operator and is not included in the search By default and is assumed to connect search words unless otherwise specified The Words box displays a complete list of all unique words in the database and scrolls to the entry closest to the word currently being entered Ctrl Enter will place the highlighted word from this list into the query Page 8 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Text Screen Layout When viewing the entire database or the results of queries they will be presented in the following screen This view may be toggled between a window view and a full screen view by pressing Ctrl Z The numbers in the upper right hand corner are particularly significant as they show your location while viewing the results Total Folios in Current Vie CANADA Quebec NAME R serve mondiale de la biosph re de Charlevoix IUCN MANAGEMENT CATEGORY I Scientific Reserve IV Managed Nature Reserve V Protected Landscape IX Biosphere Reserve BIOGEOGRAPHICAL
15. el For A4 paper set page length to 70 lines For 81 2 x 11 inch paper set page length to 66 lines The example below illustrates printing the result of the search used in the examples on preceding pages The active folio is the site sheet for CANADA Waterton Lakes National Park Since we have specified only the active folio we get only the Waterton Lakes data If instead we specified the active view we would get all 20 records retrieved by the search The query line includes the database name plus the query used to select the specific sheets in this case all sheets containing felis concolor but not in the United States of America country group Query UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves felis concolor lunited states of america CANADA Waterton Lakes National Park Canis lupus V very rare coyote C latrans cougar Felis concolor grizzly bear Ursus arctos horribilis American black bear U americanus Saving Results to a File To save the results to a file for use in other computer programs chose Save As from the File menu The screen below illustrates the choices The Generic Word Processing option produces a file with tabs and soft returns preserved This form is easier to edit after importing into nearly all word processing programs The DOS Text option produces a file much like a printed report with hard returns at the end of each line Page 18 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Includ Que
16. ences in addressing complex environmental problems A key component of the MAB Programme is the establishment of a global network of biosphere reserves These reserves play three basic roles Conservation Biosphere reserves provide protection of indigenous genetic resources plant and animal species ecosystems and landscapes of value for the conservation of the world s biological diversity Development Biosphere reserves are established to promote the goals of conservation and sustainable use of ecosystem resources These goals are achieved through close cooperation with local communities taking advantage of traditional knowledge indigenous products and appropriate land management Logistic Biosphere reserves are linked through a global network they provide facilities for research monitoring education and training for local purposes as well as for regional or international initiatives In order to fulfil their conservation development and logistic roles biosphere reserves are typically comprised of three distinct zones The core area or areas are devoted to strict protection in accordance with pre established conservation objectives The core area is surrounded or is contiguous with a delineated buffer zone or zones where the only activities permitted are those which are compatible with identified conservation objectives The buffer zone in turn is surrounded by a transition area where co operation with local populations and su
17. eys on the numeric keypad to zoom in and out Use the cursor keys to view different sections if you have zoomed in Printing You print by selecting Print from the File menu or by pressing Ctrl PrintScreen The following screen allows you to set what is included and the format of a print request The choices illustrated starting on page 15 which are made from the Options menu affect both the display and the printed report Thus if the screen shows only References then only the references will be printed The Scope choices see illustration on next page have the greatest impact on the printed output Active folio will include only the current site sheet Active view will include all site sheets selected by the current query which would be all site sheets if no search had been started However you can choose to print only selected text with the Blocked text option Block text by using Ctrl B to mark the beginning then use the cursor keys to highlight the text to be printed then press Ctrl PrintScreen UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 17 PRINT Scop Includ e Active folio x Query Active view x Highlight se Blocked text Spacing e Single Double Starting page 1 Form Length 70 E Margins Printer Top O e Generic Printer No Co LPT1 Left O Right 75 HP LaserJetIII LPT1 Bottom 60 Redirect document to C VIEWS BIORES PRN x Save settings to C VIEWS VIEWS CFG Enter 0K Esc Canc
18. he text window will display the top of the first site sheet Press the Space bar to begin a search Then press CtrI G to select by group The Words section of the query screen will change to Groups and will contain a list of all countries You may select a country by either typing in the country name and pressing Enter or using the cursor keys to highlight the country name and pressing Ctrl Enter Either way the results will be identical to option 1 NOTE The main use of groups in this database is to identify all site sheets in a given country You can specify a group in a search by use of the vertical bars phrase that can be entered either from the keyboard or by pressing Ctrl G Combine groups with other operators described below to construct more complicated queries Retrieving by Reserve Name Again there are two options 1 To retrieve site sheets by reserve name begin a search by pressing Space and then enter a double quotation mark followed by words from the reserve name The double quotation mark specifies an exact string search This process will usually select both the individual site sheet and the List of Biosphere Reserves The site sheet will be the second folio in the selected view To move rapidly to the second folio use the Ctrl G or Go To from the Search menu to get the Go To dialogue box Then under Folio enter 2 and press Enter For reserves with long names it will often not be necessary to enter the entire na
19. ins the full complement of more than 300 site sheets text descriptions describing all of the international biosphere reserves currently in existence Also included are supporting materials graphics and maps showing the general location of the reserves It was developed primarily for the MAB national committees and people working on biosphere reserves It should also be of value to research institutions students and others This database is a first attempt to provide information about biosphere reserves in an electronic format to a wide user audience Therefore comments suggestions and corrections are especially appropriate Additional Information For queries suggestions and further information please contact Division of Ecological Sciences or Protected Areas Data Unit Programme on Man and the Biosphere MAB World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1 rue Miollis 219 Huntingdon Road 75015 PARIS Cambridge CB3 ODL France United Kingdom Tel 33 1 45684142 Tel 44 223 277314 Fax 33 1 40659897 Fax 44 223 277136 E Mail donaldg wemce org uk Any suggestions on how to improve this Folio infobase are most welcome About Folio Views The database was created with Folio Views software a run time version of which is included with each copy of the database It provides for very rapid retrieval of one or more site sheets based on any word s in the sheet This run time version does not allow the user to reorganize or update the database
20. l sheets containing felis but not felis concolor Nesting In complicated searches especially those using the or operator it is often important to specify the precedence of the various operators Round brackets parentheses are used to specify which phrases are to be evaluated first In this example australia amp desert grassland will find all sheets in the australia group which contain either desert or grassland Without nesting the program will evaluate australia amp desert grassland as all sheets containing australia and desert plus any sheet containing just the word grassland This may not be desired result If in doubt use nesting as it never does any harm Proximity Searches To find two words a specified number of words apart from each other type the words beginning with double quotes Then type the character followed by a number showing the proximity in words that the two may be separated For example the search desert grasslands 23 will find all sheets where the word grasslands occurs within 3 words of desert Displaying Results of Search The top five choices on the Options Alt O menu control what is displayed as the result of a search The selected options will have a in the left margin of the menu Each choice can be toggled on or off It is not possible to have no choices selected since this would imply that nothing would be displayed The choices are Text When selected the full text of
21. me Enter words until the Results window shows that you have narrowed the search sufficiently NOTE Accented and other special foreign language characters are indexed as unique characters and must be entered in order to search for words that contain them These may be entered by holding down the Alt key and typing in the decimal equivalent on the numeric keypad A list of these characters is included under Foreign Language Characters at the end of this manual UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 13 Retrieving by any Word in Text To search for any word or words in the text simply press Space and enter the words You may use a group of words in the text for a search by blocking them then pressing Space Wildcards In any search you may use the standard DOS and wildcards The wildcard will match any single character For example analys s would match both analysis and analyses The wildcard will match any number of characters including none For example analy will match analyse analyses analysing analysis and analytic Exact String Searches If you want to search for an exact string enclose the string with double quotation marks A good example would be felis concolor which will find all sheets that contain that exact string Using And Or and Not AND If more than one search word is entered Folio Views assumes that both all the words appear somewhere in the site sheet
22. n 5 Basic Concepts azi VR EA ES MRS dec e n 5 Moving Around ig cicada gs hee dha RU RR ase aaa a ndi e a at RA d Dg 5 Geiting Help oa uiua oy CR REN Rea RM FPE Nd CWe s was Rs M 6 Command Quick Reference 4 coo y ek RT des 7 Mouse Usage 2 2 doe te I Acerca oars ake ea oO Be a LR Cede a 8 Search Screen Layout anc cess o rx ERE EE PEE Ed 8 Text Screen Layout 08533 506 d rtp P ya e dd x ce SR ada os eM l 9 Printer Installation SA reo re era IN Oe RO ORC ce d MEL Setting Defaults 4 gcc ta a eR EA A eadera gr ota ard 10 Tutorial eua SG eda P ee Xue AS RAE VA EERE 13 Retrieving by COUnDIry vo ex uere RW em oa qr GN a 13 Retrieving by Reserve Name ces a obe OR em REC oC 13 Retrieving by any Word in Text 2 ee ee om ooo 14 W ldeatis oos eh Get tg eC Bava Sk Salty pdt e RA ae ae 14 Exact String Searches ui iu euo ec oa E A OUR DERE EB See 14 Using And Or and NOU se seamen ads eh SW a how 69e UR C 14 Nesting o3 x 4413 A eR Sry AUR Rer A open dian ahaa ae at 15 Proximity Searches oues eed dre awe VECES NC AGO Eu Rud 15 Displaying Results of Search ooooo ooo ooo ooo o 15 Viewing Maps and Charts 12 2 A AAA 17 PENNE DIEM O a LR 17 saving Results toa Fl os ur ot Mle Sas a Ee aere Oe we are 18 Sample Site Sh et oeae x3 Res a a a E E x Reg 20 Foreign Language Characters cele 23 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page i About this Database This database conta
23. ng Around You may use any feature by pressing keys on the keyboard or by using a mouse It is a matter of personal preference and or availability of a mouse From the keyboard you can use the menus or keystroke combinations Select pull down menus by holding down the Alt key and pressing the first letter of the menu item For example Alt F will display the File menu Alt S for the Search menu and Alt O for the Options menu Once the menu is displayed you can select options by pressing the highlighted letter or by using the cursor and Enter keys Here are the basic keys Key Function Enter e Selects highlighted commands from menus Opens a full view at the cursor Follows links Esc e Discards the active window e Cancels a menu command or process Cancels a search request Caution Exits program if only a single window is on the screen UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 5 Space e Accesses search windows e Performs a quick search with text blocked Tab e Moves the cursor to the next prior link token Shift Tab or the next prior folio Cycles between open windows Numeric keypad Ctrl T Toggles between full text and reference line display Ctrl Z Toggles between full screen and windowed display When viewing the maps or charts either the Esc Enter or Space bar keys will return you to the previous screen Getting Help Besides this manual extensive on line help is available
24. ocess should have installed the following files on your hard drive BIORES NFO The database itself including the complete text of all biosphere reserve site sheets plus all indexes CGM Graphics maps and charts BIORES COM amp The searching and BIORES EXE viewing programs RTMANUAL NFO The help file and manual VIEWS PTR The printer definitions VCGM EXE Computer Graphics Metafile CGM viewer program LOAD EXE The installation program Starting the Database 1 At the DOS prompt type cd biores and press Enter If you installed the program in another directory type the name of the directory instead of biores 2 Type biores then press Enter Installing on a Network You may install the database on a local area network The loading process is identical to that for a stand alone computer The following suggestions will help maintain the integrity of the database and provide users with access to it 1 The users need only read privileges to the directory containing the database and program files Page 2 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database 25 To use a network printer you should use a capture or its equivalent command to redirect output from one of your terminal ports to a network printer 3 When saving text to a file you must have write privileges for the directory to which the output will be sent The default directory to which the files are saved is the directory in which the program was star
25. osphere reserves in the context of their basic roles The text descriptions follow a standardised format to allow comparison between sites in the global network of biosphere reserves Information in each site description includes materials on major ecological features descriptions of research conservation and monitoring initiatives local human activities and interaction in and around biosphere reserves and management issues associated with such sites Over the years this format has changed in response to the types of information UNESCO MAB national committees and the user community have desired and continues to evolve in response to this demand WCMC first worked with UNESCO on a compilation of biosphere reserve lists and analyses in 1983 for the First International Biosphere Reserve Congress Minsk Byelorussia Subsequently WCMC the World Conservation Union IUCN and UNESCO have worked together on the preparation of directories of biosphere reserves published in 1986 and 1990 In 1992 WCMC presented the MAB Secretariat with text descriptions for all biosphere reserves in Folio Views This database for broader distribution is built on that first attempt WCMC has also worked with the UNESCO Secretariat in the preparation of publications and discussion papers on information management and in revising the nomination form for biosphere reserves Besides the database of text descriptions that exists for all sites a series of other d
26. ry Scop e Active folio Active view Blocked text Enter 0K Esc Cancel UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 19 Sample Site Sheet The main body of the database consists of 314 site sheets Three biosphere reserves have two site sheets as they represent trans frontier reserves While there is some variation in the structure of the site sheets they all contain the same basic information Here is a sample site sheet for the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve in Canada NAME Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve MANAGEMENT CATEGORY II and IX National Park and Biosphere Reserve BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PROVINCE 1 04 03 and 1 18 11 Canadian Taiga and Grasslands LEGAL PROTECTION Total DATE ESTABLISHED In 1895 an area of 247 000ha was set aside as a Forest Reserve and within it in 1906 a game reserve was set up The National Park was established in 1930 and the area accepted as a Biosphere Reserve in April 1986 GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION South central Canada on the Manitoba escarpment 300km north west of Winnipeg 50 30 51 01 N 99 31 101 05 W ALTITUDE 318 755m AREA The Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 297 591ha LAND TENURE Government of Canada PHYSICAL FEATURES The park is situated in the Manitoba Escarpment region This 300 350m high escarpment was part of the shoreline of the glacial Lake Agassiz and separates the Manitoba and Saskatchewan plains Much of the park is a rolling plateau where the bedrock
27. search term B W B W 3 Words after search term Mono Save window position size as top two infobase windows Override infobase settings VIEWS CFG Esc Cancel Save settings to C TEMP Enter OK UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 11 User Defaults In addition to the appearance options the Temp file path is important to the proper functioning of the database It should point to a disk with a minimum of 1mb of free space Any temporary files that the program creates will be placed in the temporary file path Network users should be careful to specify a directory in which they have write privileges If this field is empty the database will place temporary files in the active directory Backplane Shadows e Auto detect Color Menus Directory B W Search Dialog x Quick Help Search Windows Display Speed Store position size eFast may cause snow xWords Groups xResults Slow no snow Infobase search path F TEST Temp file path C TEMP Save settings to C TEMP VIEWS CFG Enter 0K Esc Cancel Page 12 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Tutorial Retrieving by Country There are two options when retrieving site sheets by country 1 In the List of Biosphere Reserves put the cursor on the link token v to the left of the country name and press Enter You will immediately select all site sheets for that country and t
28. ssfully on an IBM PC XT 2 MS DOS 3 1 or higher 3 A minimum of 512 kilobytes of Random Access Memory RAM 4 A 3 5 high density floppy disk drive 5 A hard disk drive with at least 6 megabytes of free space 6 A monitor capable of displaying graphics The program will run on a text only monitor but you will not be able to view the maps and charts 7 A mouse is recommended but not required Installing on a Stand alone Computer 1 2 Insert the disk labelled Disk 1 3 Biosphere Reserves into your floppy drive At the DOS prompt type A load and press Enter If the floppy drive you are using is not A substitute the correct letter for the drive Load displays an introductory screen Select Automatic from the menu and press Enter UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 1 4 On the next screen you will probably want to edit the Destination Drive Directory We suggest that you create a separate directory named biores 5 If the directory does not already exist you will be asked if you want to create it 6 The next screen will ask you to Insert Disk 1 which should already be in the drive Press Enter The loading process will begin with the screen displaying the progress in installing the individual files 7 You will be prompted to Insert Disk 2 and then Disk 3 8 When done the screen will display Load Completed Pressing any key will return you to the DOS prompt The load pr
29. stainable resource management practices is developed As of October 1993 there were a total of 311 biosphere reserves covering a total area of around 176 6 million hectares ha in over 80 countries These sites range in size from those such as Parc national du Tassili Algeria covering 7 2 million ha to the Waddensea of Hamburg Germany with an approved area of 11 700ha Many biosphere reserves include a number of nationally designated conservation units ranging from national parks to indigenous reserves UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page iii Following the inception of the MAB Programme in the early 1970s two main trends have emerged in the global biosphere reserve network 1 it is a network that is expanding both in terms of total number of sites and countries with approved biosphere reserves and 2 it is a network that is constantly evolving to meet the dual needs of conservation and sustainable development for local communities It is the latter especially which is the key distinguishing feature of biosphere reserves Information Management In order to summarise information about individual biosphere reserves the World Conservation Monitoring Centre WCMC in consultation with the Division of Ecological Sciences UNESCO has prepared text descriptions site sheets based on a standardised format This format and its presentation has been developed to yield concise comprehensive information about bi
30. ted 4 Any temporary files that the program creates will be placed in the temporary file path Network users should be careful to specify a directory in which they have write privileges If this field is empty the program will place temporary files in the current directory 5 Set the Infobase search path pointing to the directory containing the database and program files as shown in Setting Defaults starting on page 10 Once the path to the infobase has been saved in a configuration file VIEWS CFG you may start the database from directory containing the configuration file by typing Infobase search path biores and pressing Enter UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 3 Structure and Contents of Database The database is organised as follows e Title Page your first view of the database e Table of Contents with links to listed sections e Introduction Overview and Summary including graphics List of Biosphere Reserves Individual Site Sheets grouped alphabetically by country This manual In addition there are links to maps and graphics stored as separate DOS files The List of Biosphere Reserves contains links to the country groups In the example below the inverted triangle v to the left of Canada is a link to all site sheets for Canada The token to the right of Canada lt gt Press Enter to view location map is a link to a map showing the general location of the reserves List
31. ted the park to hunt and fish Some fur traders exploited the area in the 18th century CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT The area has been zoned to accommodate different land uses and managed accordingly Since 1980 additional baseline data has been collected and management objectives made more explicit In 1980 the Riding Mountain Regional Liaison Committee was formed which includes representatives from the surrounding 18 municipalities ZONING This is in accordance with the National Parks Zoning System Twelve core areas or Special Preservation Zones have been designated Most of the reserve is a Wilderness Area One site is set aside for Intensive Use and some sites have been set aside for roads and campsites The surrounding Rural Municipalities are designated a Zone of Cooperation to act as an additional buffer STAFF There are 105 full time employees BUDGET US 6 522 00 for operation and maintenance in 1982 83 LOCAL ADMINISTRATION Superintendent Riding Mountain National Park Wasagaming Manitoba ROJ 2HO VISITOR FACILITIES There are 657 campsites 240 group tenting sites 158 trailer sites and some cottages services and supplies or alternative accommodation are available in the town of Wasagaming Power boating on some lakes and fishing are permitted and skiing is being developed There are 32 trails which can be used on foot cycle or horseback In 1981 82 there were 842 436 visitors There is an interpretive centre and a variety of educa
32. tional programmes are available SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND FACILITIES There have been studies of the ecology of elk moose wolf coyote beaver and snowshoe hare and grassland ecology Wilson Creek Watershed is a major long term research program and investigates possible remedies for headwater flooding There is no special facilities apart from a meteorological station LOCAL POPULATION The surrounding area has a largely rural population but agricultural development is intensive DISTURBANCES DEFICIENCIES AND MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS A public highway traverses the eastern end of the park and the seasonal resort facilities are highly urbanized power boats are permitted on certain lakes and skiing facilities have been developed There are some cottage developments inside the park Sport fishing is permitted The vegetation has been altered by past grazing and logging now discontinued Intensive agricultural development of surrounding lands causes pressure on the wildlife populations of the park UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database Page 21 PRINCIPAL REFERENCE MATERIAL Briscoe B W Lee B S Allan C and Tempany I 1979 Riding Mountain National Park Resource Description and Analysis Unpublished report Parks Canada Winnipeg 264pp Lombard North Group Ltd 1976 Riding Mountain National Park Biophysical Land Inventory Oleson R and Wilmot L 1971 Bibliography of Riding Mountain National Park Parks Can
33. u Use the tab key to move around the screen and the cursor keys and space bar to select the desired options If you want to change the default colours an additional dialogue box will appear along with a window to allow you to view the results Use the grey keys on the numeric keypad to cycle through the available colours Mouse users can simply point and click Infobase Defaults You will be presented with the following screen before seeing the main Infobase Defaults screen The distinction between the two choices is only of significance to network users the set defaults in the infobase option will affect all users initially Individual users can then change them by choosing the Set defaults in the configuration file option Single users will get the same results with either choice Page 10 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database u INFOBASE DEFAULTS Set defaults in the infobase e Set defaults in the configuration file Enter OK Esc Cancel See the Tutorial section beginning on page 15 for examples of how the Text References Markers and Focus choices affect the display of information INFOBASE DEFAULTS saved in config file Display Format Display After Search xText Text References References Markers Markers Focus xNo modification Active Inactive Color Color Focus 3 Words before
34. uillermo CHILE Reserva de la Biosfera Araucar as CHILE Parque Nacional Fray Jorge Reserva Nacional Las Chinchillas CHILE Laguna San Rafael National Park CHILE Parque Nacional Torres del Paine COLOMBIA Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta COLOMBIA El Tuparro Nature Reserve COSTA RICA Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad COSTA RICA Cordillera Volcanica Central ECUADOR Yasuni National Park and Biosphere Reserve GUATEMALA Reserva de la Bi sfera Maya HONDURAS Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve MEXICO Reserva de la Biosfera de Mapimi MEXICO Reserva de la Biosfera La Michilia Mexico Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka an PERU Reserva de Huascaran PERU Reserva del Noroeste If you both display the Reference Ctrl R and turn on Focus Ctrl F then the display will also contain the search terms with the adjacent words in context as illustrated below CANADA Waterton Lakes National Park latrans cougar Felis concolor grizzly bear Ursus ARGENTINA Reserva Natural de Vida Silvestre Laguna Blanca eee mountain lion Felis concolor and Andean cat ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera Laguna de Pozuelos e and puma Felis concolor Merino 1987 Tecchi ARGENTINA Reserva de la Biosfera San Guillermo mountain lion Felis concolor Birds include Andean CHILE Reserva de la Biosfera Araucarias pudu kodkod Felis guigna puma F concolor guanaco Lama guanicoe Page 16 UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Site Description Database
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