دانلود کتاب How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas

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Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Biodiversity and Human Impact During the Last 11,000 Years in North-Central Chile....Pages 7-17
Beyond Malthus and Perverse Incentives: Economic Globalization, Forest Conversion and Habitat Fragmentation....Pages 19-32
Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity in Central Amazonia....Pages 33-48
Climatic and Human Influences on Fire Regimes in Temperate Forest Ecosystems in North and South America....Pages 49-87
Natural Versus Anthropogenic Sources of Amazonian Biodiversity: the Continuing Quest for El Dorado....Pages 89-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Bees Not to Be? Responses of Insect Pollinator Faunas and Flower Pollination to Habitat Fragmentation....Pages 111-129
Implications of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics to the Genetic Analysis of Fragmentation....Pages 131-144
Forest Fragmentation, Plant Regeneration and Invasion Processes Across Edges in Central Chile....Pages 145-160
The Ecological Consequences of a Fragmentation-Mediated Invasion: The Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile , in Southern California....Pages 161-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
A Review and Synthesis of Conceptual Frameworks for the Study of Forest Fragmentation....Pages 183-200
Reflections on Landscape Experiments and Ecological Theory: Tools for the Study of Habitat Fragmentation....Pages 201-223
Spatial Autocorrelation, Dispersal and the Maintenance of Source-Sink Populations....Pages 225-238
Patch Dynamics, Habitat Degradation, and Space in Metapopulations....Pages 239-254
How Much Functional Redundancy Is Out There, or, Are We Willing to Do Away with Potential Backup Species?....Pages 255-262
Predicting Distributions of South American Migrant Birds in Fragmented Environments: a Possible Approach Based on Climate....Pages 263-283
Habitat Heterogeneity on a Forest-Savanna Ecotone in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Santa Cruz, Bolivia): Implications for the Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate....Pages 285-312
Bandages for Wounded Landscapes: Faunal Corridors and Their Role in Wildlife Conservation in the Americas....Pages 313-325
Management of the Semi-Natural Matrix....Pages 327-343
Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas....Pages 345-353
Back Matter....Pages 355-363