This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals examine how sprawl affects species and alters natural communities, ecosystems, and natural processes. The contributors integrate biodiversity ...
Habitat fragmentation is one of the most ubiquitous and serious environmental threats confronting the long-term survival of plant and animal species worldwide. As species become restricted to remnant habitats, effective management for long-term conservation requires a quantitative understanding of the genetic and demographic effects of habitat ...
The fragmentation of the tropical rain forests is the subject of this study, which looks at the devastating damage caused to these sensitive areas. 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. This ...
Why do Australian rainforests occur as islands within the vast tracts of Eucalyptus? Why is fire a critical ecological factor in every Australian landscape? What were the consequences of the ice-age colonists use of fire? In this original and challenging book, David Bowman critically examines hypotheses that have been advanced to answer these ...
This volume addresses several key questions regarding primates in fragments. It is divided into sections based on broad categories of research in primates in fragments. In the genetics and population dynamics section, the authors cover topics in viability, metapopulation and species that remain in remnant forests. In the behavioral ecology section ...
The focus of the Southern Rocky Mountains are part of this region's natural heritage, providing priceless ecological value, essential natural resources, numerous opportunities for outdoor recreation, refuge for native biological diversity, and solitude to Americans who want to escape our crowded cities. This book aims to educate all those who ...
Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the ...
Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of ...
We live in fragmented cities. What sort of fragments - hybrids, pixels, borders, and territories - make up the contemporary city? Shrinking cities, fast-growing cities and shifting cities; cities that divide themselves into separate territories - islands that exist in parallel but at varying speeds. We will explore the ways in which people ...
In "Unmanaged Landscapes, " editor Bill Willers brings together an insightful and thought-provoking selection of writings that challenge the assumption that humans can effectively "manage" nature. The collection is divided into three sections: one that focuses on biology and ecology, one that examines the idea of wildness from the standpoint of ...
Covers questions concerning the biological implications of current systems of management in western forests and what evidence exists either supporting or refuting the concern that there may be long-term negative effects on vertebrate species presence and productivity as a result of forest fragmentation. The book describes the current level of ...
This book highlights the difficulties in making practical decisions regarding conservation when the habitat has been highly fragmented. It takes as its test case the chronically fragmented landscape of the Illinois forest-prairie border. The book's three major sections define the context for the case study, describe general problems using specific ...
Offers a unique mix of theoretical and practical information, outlining general principles and approaches and illustrating those principles with case studies from around the world.
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