Global forest fragmentation /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Subjects: Fragmented landscapes.; Forest ecology.; Forestry Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Land Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Biological Resources (Plant); Biodiversity.; Carbon.; Carbon sequestration.; Climate change.; Deforestation.; Ecosystem services.; Emission.; Environmental degradation.; Forest fragmentation.; Forest policy.; Government policy.; Land use.; Nature conservation.; Projects.; Resource conservation.; World.
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This book with 10 chapters (following an Introduction) covers the major questions of forest fragmentation as general questions affecting the world's forest biodiversity, ecosystem function and ecosystem services. These are not merely case studies from particular places in the world, confirming...

Table of Contents:

• Global Forest Fragmentation : Introduction / Chris J. Kettle and Lian Pin Koh
• The History of Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation : A Global Perspective / Shonil Bhagwat
• Contemporary Drivers of Habitat Fragmentation / William F. Laurance
• Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity Conservation in Human-dominated Landscapes / Timm F. Döbert, Bruce L. Webber, Andrew D. Barnes, Katharine J.M. Dickinson and Raphael K. Didham
• Forest Fragmentation Genetics : What Can Genetics Tell Us About Forest Fragmentation? / Aline Finger, Ute Radespiel, Jan C. Habel and Chris J. Kettle
• Forest Fragmentation and Climate Change / Richard T. Corlett
• Forest Islands in an Agricultural Sea / Alexandra-Maria Klein, Virginie Boreux, Jürgen Bauhus, M. Jahi Chappell, Joern Fischer and Stacy M. Philpott
• Forest Fragmentation and Ecosystem Function / Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Yangchen Lin, Sarah H. Luke, William A. Foster and Edgar C. Turner
• Beyond the Mirror : Tropical Forest Fragmentation and its Impact on Rural Livelihoods / Claude A. Garcia and Laurène Feintrenie
• Governance Failures and the Fragmentation of Tropical Forests / Christopher Barr, Keith Barney and Sarah A. Laird
• Future Forests : Fantasy or Façade? A Synthesis / Chris J. Kettle, Rhett Harrison and Lian Pin Koh.