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The cutting edge : conserving wildlife in logged tropical forest /

Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fimbel, Robert A., Grajal, Alejandro, Robinson, John G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Preface; Contributors; PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORESTRY-WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS IN TROPICAL FORESTS; Chapter 1: LOGGING-WILDLIFE ISSUES IN THE TROPICS: An Overview, Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal, and John G. Robinson; Chapter 2: TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE: Silvicultural Effects on Forest Structure, Fruit Production, and Locomotion of Arboreal Animals, Francis E. Putz, Laura K. Sirot, and Michelle A. Pinard; Chapter 3: LOGGING, SEED DISPERSAL BY VERTEBRATES, AND NATURAL REGENERATION OF TROPICAL TIMBER TREES, Patrick A. Jansen and Pieter A. Zuidema.
  • Part II: WILDLIFE AND CHAINSAWS: DIRECT IMPACTS OF LOGGING ON WILDLIFEChapter 4: CHANGES IN PRIMATE COMMUNITIES FOLLOWING LOGGING DISTURBANCE, Andrew J. Plumptre and Andrew Grieser Johns; Chapter 5: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON TROPICAL FOREST UNGULATES, Glyn Davies, Matt Heydon, Nigel Leader-Williams, John MacKinnon, and Helen Newing; Chapter 6: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON NONVOLANT SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN NEOTROPICAL RAIN FORESTS, José Ochoa G. and Pascual J. Soriano.
  • Chapter 7: THE CONSEQUENCES OF TIMBER EXPLOITATION FOR BAT COMMUNITIES IN TROPICAL AMERICA, Pascual J. Soriano and José Ochoa G. Chapter 8: TROPICAL FORESTRY AND THE CONSERVATION OF NEOTROPICAL BIRDS, Douglas J. Mason and Jean-Marc Thiollay; Chapter 9: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON BIRDS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OF INDO-AUSTRALIA, Mohamed Zakaria Bin Hussin and Charles M. Francis; Chapter 10: BIRD COMMUNITIES IN LOGGED AND UNLOGGED AFRICAN FORESTS: Lessons from Uganda and Beyond, Andrew Plumptre, Christine Dranzoa, and Isaiah Owiunji.
  • Chapter 11: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF TROPICAL FORESTS, Laurie J. Vitt and Janalee P. CaldwellChapter 12: THE IMPACTS OF SELECTIVE LOGGING ON TROPICAL FOREST INVERTEBRATES, Jaboury Ghazoul and Jane Hill; Chapter 13: SOIL FAUNA IN MANAGED FORESTS, Lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, Gerardo R. Camilo and Xiaoming Zou; Chapter 14: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON TROPICAL RIVER ECOSYSTEMS, Catherine M. Pringle and Jonathan P. Benstead; Part III: HUNTING: A MAJOR INDIRECT IMPACT OF LOGGING ON GAME SPECIES.
  • Chapter 15: LOGGING AND HUNTING IN COMMUNITY FORESTS AND CORPORATE CONCESSIONS: Two Contrasting Case Studies in Bolivia, Damián I. Rumiz, Daniel Guinart S., Luciano Solar R., and José C. Herrera F. Chapter 16: THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF COMMERCIAL LOGGING, HUNTING, AND WILDLIFE IN SARAWAK: Recommendations for Forest Management, Elizabeth L. Bennett and Melvin T. Gumal; Chapter 17: DEFAUNATION, NOT DEFORESTATION: Commercial Logging and Market Hunting in Northern Congo, David S. Wilkie, J.G. Sidle, G.C. Boundzanga, P. Auzel, and S. Blake.