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Ecology of fragmented landscapes /
"Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, woodlands, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conceptual frameworks
- Fragment size and isolation
- Experimenting with fragmentation
- Fragment context and edge effects
- Animal and plant movement
- Species interactions
- Parasites, pathogens, and disease emergence
- Modeling
- Restoration
- Ecological planning
- Some final thoughts.