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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradshaw, Gay A.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Marquet, Pablo A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
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.