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This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological
tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to
biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing
evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising
adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in altered and/or
changing environments that apparently lost most of their structure
and functionality. Space and time heterogeneities are considered in
order to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of
species and the various processes that mold them. The book also
discusses at which level-from genes to the landscape, including
individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems-men should
intervene in nature in order to prevent the loss of biodiversity.
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological
tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to
biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing
evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising
adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in altered and/or
changing environments that apparently lost most of their structure
and functionality. Space and time heterogeneities are considered in
order to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of
species and the various processes that mold them. The book also
discusses at which level from genes to the landscape, including
individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems men should
intervene in nature in order to prevent the loss of
biodiversity."
The state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely
populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is
evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as
well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane,
Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has
resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and
fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is
almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas
of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the
state of Sao Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in
coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare
encounters with large wild animals in Sao Paulo will disappear in
the near future? All ecologists are aware of the problems of
habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years
that researchers started to consider that the land used for
production could also serve as an important habitat for many
different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new
approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role
that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to
better understand the problems and propose possible solutions.
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