Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest - Rilegato

 
9780300084832: Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0300084838 ISBN 13: 9780300084832
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2001

Sinossi

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 longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.

A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., is assistant professor (adjunct) in biology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Claude Gascon is vice president for field support at Conservation International, Washington, D.C. Thomas E. Lovejoy is chief biodiversity adviser and lead specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Bank. Rita Mesquita is in the ecology department at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brazil.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300084838
ISBN 13 
9780300084832
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
478
Redattore
Bierregaard Richard O. Jr., Lovejoy Thomas E., Gascon Claude, Mesquita Rita
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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