Tropical forest remnants ecology management and conservation of fragmented communities pdf

Chapter 1 tropical forest disturbance, disappearance, and species loss t. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented communities. The ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest contains many tables and figures of unpublished results that allow the reader to closely scrutinize the values upon which the conservation lessons are drawn at the end of each chapter. Tropical forest remnants provides the best information available to help us understand, manage, and conserve the remaining fragments. The conservation value of linear forest remnants in. Forest edge disturbance increases rattan abundance in. Laurance grew up in the western us, in oregon and idaho. The importance of remnant native vegetation of amazonian. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented commu. Ecology, management and conservation of fragmented communities volume 23 issue 1 william f. Fearnside and others published tropical forest remnants. Ecology, management and conservation of fragmented communities ed. He initially aspired to direct his own zoo, but later turned to ecology and conservation biology. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented.

Tropical forests are currently disappearing at roughly 15. Article pdf available in journal of wildlife management. Ecology, management and conservation of fragmented communities edited by w. 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. We surveyed small mammal and litterfrog communities in linear remnants of primary rainforest ranging from. 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. The book is very homogeneous despite the fact that contributing authors are from 9. The fragmentation of the tropical rain forests is the subject of this study, which looks at the devastating damage caused to these sensitive areas. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented communities, edited by william f. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented communities 9780226468990. Ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented communities article pdf available in journal of wildlife management 793 october 1998 with 316 reads. Assemblage and populationlevel consequences of forest fragmentation on bilateral asymmetry in tropical montane birds.