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

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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This text presents the results of the a long-running and comprehensive study of forest fragmentation, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia. The study includes baseline data from before isolation from continuous forest took place.

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• Authors: Richard Bierregaard
• Assisted by: Richard Bierregaard (Editor), Richard O. Bierregaard (Editor), Bierregaard Richard (Editor), Claude Gascon (Editor), Gascon Claude (Editor), Thomas E. Lovejoy (Editor), Rita Mesquita (Editor), Mesquita Rita (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2001
• EAN: 9780300084832
• ISBN: 978-0-300-08483-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 1225 g
• Illustrations: 93 b-w + 13 color illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; South America, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Deforestation, Forests, rainforests, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Forests and woodland