Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change: An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis - Softcover

Lindenmayer, David B.; Fischer, Joern

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597260215 ISBN 13: 9781597260213

Publisher: Island Press, 2006

Synopsis

Habitat loss and degradation that comes as a result of human activity is the single biggest threat to biodiversity in the world today. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change is a groundbreaking work that brings together a wealth of information from a wide range of sources to define the ecological problems caused by landscape change and to highlight the relationships among landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation. The book:

• synthesizes a large body of information from the scientific literature
• considers key theoretical principles for examining and predicting effects
• examines the range of effects that can arise
• explores ways of mitigating impacts
• reviews approaches to studying the problem
• discusses knowledge gaps and future areas for research and management

Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change offers a unique mix of theoretical and practical information, outlining general principles and approaches and illustrating those principles with case studies from around the world. It represents a definitive overview and synthesis on the full range of topics that fall under the widely used but often vaguely defined term "habitat fragmentation."

About this title

About the Author:

David Lindenmayer is Professor of Ecology at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading ecologists and conservation biologists, contributing significantly to the understanding of biodiversity both within Australia and around the world. He specializes in establishing large-scale, long-term research programs that are underpinned by rigorous experimental design, detailed sampling and innovative statistical analyses.
Lindenmayer is author of Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach, Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change: An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis, Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences, and Towards Forest Sustainability.

Review:

"This new book by Lindenmayer and Fischer provides a holistic clarity that is sorely needed and is a must-read for conservation biologists, landscape ecologists, and other serious students interested in what happens to (mostly wildlife) species in the face of landscape change."
(Ecological Restoration)

"This book is definitely one that most natural resource managers should read and have available as a reference."
(Natural Areas Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597260215
• ISBN 13: 9781597260213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352