The Landscape Perspective (Readings from Conservation Biology)

David Ehrenfeld (Edited by), Ehrenfeld (Author)

9780865424531, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 22 May 1995

264 pages
25 x 10 x 1.5 cm, 0.595 kg

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

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

Subject Areas: Earth sciences [RB]