Habitat fragmentation and landscape change : an ecological and conservation synthesis / David B. Lindenmayer, Joern Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindenmayer, David.

Contributor:

Fischer, Joern.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fragmented landscapes--Environmental aspects.

Fragmented landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Island Press, c2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""About Island Press""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyrights Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Ch. 1: Introduction""; ""Why This Book Was Written""; ""The Scope of This Book: Definitions and Key Themes""; ""The Structure of This Book""; ""How to Read This Book""; ""Further Reading""; ""Part I: Landscape Change: An Overview""; ""Ch. 2: How Landscapes Change""; ""Typical Patterns of Landscape Change""; ""The Nonrandom Patterns of Landscape Change and Vegetation Cover""; ""Dynamism in the Patterns of Vegetation Cover and Landscape Change""; ""Summary""

""Links to Other Chapters""""Further Reading""; ""Ch. 3: How Landscape Change Affects Organisms: A Conceptual Framework""; ""Processes Affecting the Distribution of Individual Species""; ""Pattern-Based Landscape Models""; ""The Link Between Single Species and Multiple Species""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Part II: The Species Perspective: Key Processes Affecting Individual Species""; ""Ch. 4: Habitat Loss""; ""Clearly Defining Habitat as a Prelude to Understanding Habitat Loss""; ""Habitat Loss Is a Deterministic Process""

""Habitat Loss as a Temporal Phenomenon""""Habitat Loss and Other Threatening Processes""; ""Caveats""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Ch. 5: Habitat Degradation""; ""Case Studies of the Effects of Habitat Degradation""; ""Chronic Degradation and Extinction Debts""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Ch. 6: Habitat Subdivision and Habitat Isolation""; ""Scales of Habitat Isolation""; ""What Represents Isolation?""; ""Confounding of Habitat Loss and Habitat Isolation""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""

""Ch. 7: Changes in the Behavior, Biology, and Interactions of Species""""Altered Behavior and Biology""; ""Altered Speciees Interactions""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Ch. 8: Synthesis: Threatening Processes for Species in Modified Landscapes""; ""Threatening Processes and Their Interactions""; ""Which Species are Extincition Prone?""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Part III: The Human Perspective: Landscape Pattens and Species Assemblages""; ""Ch. 9: Land Cover Change and Patch Sizes""

""Landscape Modification, Loss of Native Vegetation Cover, and Species Loss""""Vegetation Loss, Remaining Patch Size, and Species Richness""; ""Mechanisms Underlying Species - Area Relationships""; ""Equations for Species - Area Relationships and Forecasting Species Loss""; ""Caveats for Species - Area Relationships in Modified Landscapes""; ""Large Patches and Other Conservation Strategies""; ""Summary""; ""Links to Other Chapters""; ""Further Reading""; ""Ch. 10: Deterioration of Vegetation and the Physical Environment""

""Deterioration of the Physical Environment due to Grazing and Pastoralism""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-316) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-59726-606-X

1-4356-0637-X

OCLC:

232160484