Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the
world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of
what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the
Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of
enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the
results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of
forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of
Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only
experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which
baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest
took place.
A joint project of Brazil's National Institute for Research in
Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has
investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on
plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an
overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest
ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved
in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
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