Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change: An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis

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Island Press, Feb 22, 2013 - Nature - 352 pages
Habitat loss and degradation that comes as a result of human activity is the single biggest threat to biodiversity in the world today. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change is a groundbreaking work that brings together a wealth of information from a wide range of sources to define the ecological problems caused by landscape change and to highlight the relationships among landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation. The book:
  • synthesizes a large body of information from the scientific literature
  • considers key theoretical principles for examining and predicting effects
  • examines the range of effects that can arise
  • explores ways of mitigating impacts
  • reviews approaches to studying the problem
  • discusses knowledge gaps and future areas for research and management
Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change offers a unique mix of theoretical and practical information, outlining general principles and approaches and illustrating those principles with case studies from around the world. It represents a definitive overview and synthesis on the full range of topics that fall under the widely used but often vaguely defined term "habitat fragmentation."
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Landscape Change An Overview
13
The Species Perspective Key Processes Affecting Individual Species
39
The Human Perspective Landscape Pattens and Species Assemblages
85
Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landscapes
165
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Landscape Change on Species and Assemblages
195
Synthesis
237
About the Authors
251
References
253
Index
317
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animals areas Bennett biodiversity Biological Conservation biota bird species Burgman Chapter cies Conservation Biology David Lindenmayer decline dispersal distribution diversity ecological ecological processes ecosys ecosystem edge effects effects of landscape environment environmental example extinction proneness Fahrig Figure Fischer Forman given species grazing greater glider habitat connectivity habitat degradation habitat fragmentation habitat isolation habitat loss habitat patches habitat subdivision Hobbs human impacts of landscape important individual species island keystone species land landscape alteration landscape change landscape connectivity landscape heterogeneity landscape modification landscape pattern Laurance Lindenmayer mammals matrix matrix management ment metapopulation mitigate modified landscapes native vegetation negative nested nestedness number of species patches of native plant population viability analysis populations predation predictions rainforest range regimes Saunders scape Simberloff Soulé southeastern Australia spatial scales Species and Assemblages species richness strategies studies suitable habitat taxa threatening processes tion tive topics trees vegetation cover wildlife corridors woodland

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About the author (2013)

David B. Lindenmayer is a research professor and Joern Fischer is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Bibliographic information

TitleHabitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change: An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis
AuthorsDavid B. Lindenmayer, Joern Fischer
Editionrevised
PublisherIsland Press, 2013
ISBN159726606X, 9781597266062
Length352 pages
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Nature / Ecology
Nature / General
Science / Environmental Science
  
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