Author: Laurance, W.F.; Bierregaard Jr., R.O. (Eds)
Title: Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities
Description: University of Chicago Press 1997 616, 3 col plates, text figs. . PB. Spine and edges of front cover faded. Vg.. We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600,000 species.. [9780226468990]
Keywords: Nature Conservation; Tropical Forests
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Title: Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities
Description: University of Chicago Press 1997 616, 3 col plates, text figs. . PB. Spine and edges of front cover faded. Vg.. We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600,000 species.. [9780226468990]
Keywords: Nature Conservation; Tropical Forests
Price: GBP 25.00 = appr. US$ 35.70 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S51244
- Book number: S51244
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