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Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest by Richard Bierregaard Jr. (Editor), Claude Gascon (Editor), Thomas E. Lovejoy (Editor), Rita Mesquita (Editor)

Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest by Richard Bierregaard Jr. (Editor), Claude Gascon (Editor), Thomas E. Lovejoy (Editor), Rita Mesquita (Editor)

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ISBN: 9780300084832

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press,  September 1, 2001

Hardcover, 496 pages

Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.