Emerging threats to tropical forests /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description:xii, 563 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's c.2 is in hardcover; c.3 is in softcover.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6119996
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Other authors / contributors:Laurance, William F.
Peres, Carlos A., 1963-
ISBN:0226470210 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226470229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-541) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Introduction : what are emerging threats? /  |r William F. Laurance --  |g 1.  |t Impacts of global change on the structure, dynamics, and functioning of South American tropical forests /  |r Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips and Timothy R. Baker --  |g 2.  |t Climate change as a threat to the biodiversity of tropical rainforests in Australia /  |r Stephen E. Williams and David W. Hilbert --  |g 3.  |t Dynamic climate and land-use change in the woodland and savanna ecosystems of subtropical Africa /  |r H. H. Shugart, K. K. Caylor, C. Hely, R. J. Swap and P. R. Dowty --  |g 4.  |t Impacts of tropical deforestation on regional and global hydroclimatology /  |r Roni Avissar, Renato Ramos da Silva and David Werth --  |g 5.  |t Fragments and fire : alarming synergisms among forest disturbance, local climate change, and burning in the Amazon /  |r William F. Laurance --  |g 6.  |t Synergistic effects of habitat disturbance and hunting in Amazonian forest fragments /  |r Carlos A. Peres and Fernanda Michalski --  |g 7.  |t Human encroachment and vegetation change in isolated forest reserves : the case of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda /  |r William Olupot and Colin A. Chapman --  |g 8.  |t Emerging infectious-disease threats to tropical forest ecosystems /  |r Andrew A. Cunningham, Peter Daszak and Nikkita G. Patel --  |g 9.  |t Habitat disturbance and the proliferation of plant diseases /  |r Julieta Benitez-Malvido and Aurora Lemus-Albor --  |g 10.  |t Ebola and commercial hunting : dim prospects for African apes /  |r Peter D. Walsh --  |g 11.  |t Current decline of the "dodo tree" : a case of broken-down interactions with extinct species or the result of new interactions with alien invaders? /  |r Claudia Baider and F. B. Vincent Florens --  |g 12.  |t Consequences of cryptic and recurring fire disturbances for ecosystem structure and biodiversity in Amazonian forests /  |r Jos Barlow and Carlos A. Peres --  |g 13.  |t Disperser-free tropical forests await an unhappy fate /  |r John Terborgh and Gabriela Nunez-Iturri --  |g 14.  |t Rainforest roads and the future of forest-dependent wildlife : a case study of understory birds /  |r Susna G. W. Laurance --  |g 15.  |t Emerging threats to birds in Brazilian Atlantic forests : the roles of forest loss and configuration in a severely fragmented ecosystem /  |r Pedro Ferreira Develey and Jean Paul Metzger --  |g 16.  |t Megadiversity in crisis : politics, policies, and governance in Indonesia's forests /  |r Kathy MacKinnon --  |g 17.  |t Who should pay for tropical forest conservation, and how could the costs be met? /  |r Tony Whitten and Andrew Balmford --  |g 18.  |t Conservation incentive agreements as an alternative to tropical forest exploitation /  |r Eduard T. Niesten and Richard E. Rice --  |g 19.  |t Mitigation of climatic change in the Amazon /  |r Philip M. Fearnside --  |g 20.  |t Tourism and tropical rainforests : opportunity or threat? /  |r Stephen M. Turton and Nigel E. Stork --  |g 21.  |t Managing threats from bushmeat hunting in a timber concession in the Republic of Congo /  |r Paul W. Elkan, Sarah W. Elkan, Antoine Moukassa, Richard Malonga, Marcel Ngangoue and James L. D. Smith --  |g 22.  |t Tropical forests : a protected-area strategy for the twenty-first century /  |r Chris Fagan, Carlos A. Peres and John Terborgh --  |g 23.  |t Emerging threats to tropical forests : what we know and what we don't know /  |r William F. Laurance, Carlos A. Peres, Patrick A. Jansen and Luis D'Croz. 
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