Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change : An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis.

Intro -- 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 -- Deterioration of the Physical Enviornment due to Forestry -- Deterioration of the Physical Environment due to Firewood and Fuelwood Collection -- Interactions with Other Processes Associated with Landscape Alteration -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 11: Edge Effects -- Types of Edges and Edge Effects -- Variation in Edge Effects -- Edge Sensitivity and Extinction Proneness -- Caveats -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 12: Landscape Connectivity -- Landscape Connectivity and Other Connectivity Concepts -- Quantifying Landscape Connectivity -- Negative Effects of Reduced Landscape Connectivity -- Features Contributing to Landscape Connectivity -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 13: Nestedness and Community Assembly -- Nested Subset Theory -- Assembly Rules -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading.

Ch. 14: The Matrix and Landscape Heterogeneity -- Ecological Roles of the Matrix -- Landscape Heterogeneity -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 15: Synthesis: Cascading Effects of Landscape Change -- Cascading Effects of Landscape Change -- Why Avoiding Regime Shifts is Important -- Other Regime Shifts -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landscapes -- Ch. 16: Field-Based Apporaches to Studying Species And Assemblages in Modified Landscapes -- Process-Oriented Approaches for Single Species -- Why Field Studies in Modified Landscapes are Difficult -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 17: Desktop Approaches to Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landsapes -- Models and Modeling -- Landscape Indices -- Reviews -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Part V: Mitigating the Negative Effects of Landscape Change on Species and Assemblages -- Ch. 18: Managing Landscape Pattern to Mitigate the Decline of Species and Assemblages -- Strategy 1: Maintain and/or Restore Large and Structurally Complex Patches of Native Vegetation -- Strategy 2: Maintain and/or Restore a Matrix That Is Structurally Similar to Native Vegetation -- Strategy 3: Maintain and/or Restore Buffers around Sensitive Areas -- Strategy 4: Maintain and/or Restore Corridors and Stepping Stones -- Strategy 5: Maintain and/or Restore Landscape Heterogeneity and Capture Environmental Gradients -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Ch. 19: Managing Individual Species and Ecological Processes to Mitigate to Decline of Species and Assemblages -- Strategy 1: Maintain Key Species Interactions and Functional Diversity -- Strategy 2: Maintain or Apply Appropriate Disturbance Regimes.

Strategey 3: Maintain Species of Particular Concern -- Strategy 4: Control Aggressive, Overabundant, and Invasive Species -- Strategy 5: Miminize Ecosystem-Specific Threatening Processes -- Ch. 20: Guiding Principles for Mitigating the Decline of Species and Assemblages of Species -- Gruding Principles That Consider Patterns and Processes -- Putting It All Together: A Case Study from South America -- Beyond Science: Mitigating Landscape Change in the Real World -- Summary -- Links to Other Chapters -- Further Reading -- Part VI: Synthesis -- Ch. 21: Synthesis, Conclusions, and Priorities for the Future -- Tackling the "Fragmentation Panchreston -- Summary of Key Concepts and Themes -- Future Research Priorities -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary -- About the Authors -- References -- Index.

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