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Sustainability and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems An Interdisciplinary Approach /

Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity. The sustainable use of ecosystems allowing maintenance of biological diversity is an urgent problem that must be solved. Among terrestrial ecosystems, forests support the richest biolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Nakashizuka, Tohru (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forest utilization and its impacts on biodiversity
  • Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity
  • Degradation of longicorn beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniidae) fauna caused by conversion from broad-leaved to man-made conifer stands of Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae) in central Japan
  • Genetic and reproductive consequences of forest fragmentation for populations of Magnolia obovata
  • Ecological function losses caused by monotonous land use induce crop raiding by wildlife on the island of Yakushima, southern Japan
  • Degradation and loss of forest land and land-use changes in Sarawak, East Malaysia: a study of native land use by the Iban
  • The basis and practice of sustainable management of forests and biodiversity
  • Sustainable use of tropical forests by reduced-impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
  • When is it optimal to exhaust a resource in a finite time?
  • Bio-economic resource management under threats of environmental catastrophes.