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The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) David Ehrenfeld

The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) By David Ehrenfeld

The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) by David Ehrenfeld


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This series of readings from Conservation Biology gives access to papers published in a range of important fields. This book about perspectives on landscape can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of representative papers available in a format students can use.

The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) Summary

The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) by David Ehrenfeld

This new series of readings from Conservation Biology gives easy access to some of the finest papers ever published in a range of important fields. Readings in Conservation Biology can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of the best, most representative papers available in a format students can use. Readings will also be invaluable for researchers and academics needing an update in a specific area

About David Ehrenfeld

David Ehrenfeld is an American professor of biology at Rutgers University and is the author of over a dozen publications, including The Arrogance of Humanism, Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology, and Swimming Lessons: Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology.

Table of Contents

Biological consequences of ecosystem fragmentation: a review; Conservation of fragmented populations; Extinctions in subdivided habitats (Quinn/Hastings); A comment on Quinn and Hastings: extinction in subdivided habitats (Gilpin); Extinction in subdivided areas: a reply to Gilpin; Consequences and costs of conservation corridors (Simberloff/Cox); Corridors in real landscapes: a reply to Simberloff and Cox; Movement corridors: conservation bargains or poor investments?; Desert-dwelling mountain sheep: conservation implications of a naturally fragmented distribution; Ecological principles for the design of wildlife corridors; The principle of nested subsets and its implications for biological conservation; Nested subsets and the distribution of birds on isolated woodlots; The effect of edge on avian nest success: how strong is the evidence; The effects of fencelines on the reproductive success of Loggerhead Shrikes; Forests too deer: edge effects in northern Wisconsin; Eastern hemlock regeneration and deer browsing in the northern Great Lakes region: a re-examnination and model simulation; Avian survival rates and the extinction process on Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Forest fragmentation and bird extinctions: San Antonio eighty years later; Geographic range fragmentation and abundance in neotropical migratory birds; Area requirements for the conservation of rain forest raptors and game birds in French Guiana; Spatial models and Spotted Owls: exploring some biological issues behind recent events; Land forms and winter habitat refugia in the conservation of montane grasshoppers in southern Africa; Response of early successional vertebrates to historic changes in land use; Pollination in Dianthus deltoides (Caryophyllaceae); Forest fragmentation and alien plant invasion of central Indiana old-growth forests; Trends in landscape heterogeneity along the borders of Great Smoky Mountains National Park; An ecological evaluation of proposed new conservation areas in Idaho: evaluating proposed Idaho national parks; A comparison of direct and environmental domain approaches to planning reservation of forest higher plant communities and species in Tasmania; Modeling effects of land management in the Brazilian Amazonian settlement of Rondonia

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NLS9780865424531
9780865424531
0865424535
The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology) by David Ehrenfeld
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1995-05-22
264
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