How Landscapes Change : Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas /
North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem functions and disruptions form a common thread among these cultures. This volume synthesizes the perspectives of several disciplines, such as ecology, an...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2003.
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| Series: | Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis ;
162. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- From the contents: Biodiversity and Human Intervention During the Last 11,000 Years in North-Central Chile
- Economic Globalization, Forest Conversion and Habitat Fragmentation
- Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity in Central Amazonia
- Climatic and Human Influences on Fire Regimes in Temperate Forest Ecosystems in Western North and South America
- Problems of Distinguishing Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Amazonian Biodiversity
- Responses of Insect Pollinator Faunas and Flower Pollination to Habitat Fragmentation
- Implication of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics to the Genetic Analysis of Fragmentation
- Forest Fragmentation, Plant Regeneration and Invasion Processes Across Edges in Chile
- The Ecological Consequences of a Fragmentation Mediated Invasion
- A Conceptual Framework for Predicting the Effects of Forest Fragmentation
- Landscape Experiments and Ecological Theory
- Spatial Autocorrelation, Fractals and the Maintenance of Source-Sink Populations
- Patch Dynamics.