Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities - Softcover

 
9780226468990: Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226468992 ISBN 13: 9780226468990
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea
of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation
and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more
than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed
destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600,000 species.

Tropical Forest Remnants provides the best information available to help us
understand, manage, and conserve the remaining fragments. Covering geographic areas from
Southeast Asia and Australia to Madagascar and the New World, this volume summarizes
what is known about the ecology, management, restoration, socioeconomics, and
conservation of fragmented forests. Thirty-three papers present results of recent research as
well as updates from decades-long projects in progress. Two final chapters synthesize the
state of research on tropical forest fragmentation and identify key priorities for future work.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William F. Laurance is staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and president of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. He is coeditor of Tropical Forest Remnants and the author of Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226468992
ISBN 13 
9780226468990
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
632
Herausgeber
Laurance William F., Bierregaard Richard O. Jr.
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