How Landscapes Change Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation
North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem functions and disruptions form a common thread among these cultures. This volume synthesizes the perspective
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Edited by LT. Baldwin, Jena, Germany M.M. Caldwell, Logan, USA G. Heldmaier, Mar burg, Germany O.L. Lange, Wiirzburg, Germany H.A. Mooney, Stanford, USA E.-D. Schulze, Jena, Germany U. Sommer, Kiel, Germany
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The background color image is of a L7 satellite image composite of the KlamathSiskiyou Mountains in Southern Oregon/Northern California (USA). The three black and white images 'burned' over the color image is a forest/nonforest classified LS-L7 TM satellite sequence of areas around the city of Manaus, Amazonas (Brazil). The years of these images are 1986, 1995, and 1999 (from left to right, respectively). Photographs and composition of the image by Scott Bergen
G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet (Eds.) with the editorial assistance of Kathryn L. Ronnenberg
How Landscapes Change Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas
With 64 Figures, 5 in Color, and 19 Tables
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Dr. Gay A. Bradshaw Oregon State University Departments of Forest Science and Electrical Engineering Corvallis, Oregon 97331 USA Dr. Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecologia y Biodiversidad & Departamento de Ecologia Casilla 114-D Santiago Chile Cover illustration: Natural and human-induced landscape fragmentation (southern Oregon - California, USA) Photograph by G. A. Bradshaw
ISSN 0070-8356 ISBN 978-3-642-07827-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data How landscapes change : human disturbance and ecosystem fragmentation in the Americas / G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet (eds.) ; with the editorial assistance of Kathryn L. Ronnenberg. p. cm. -- (Ecological studies, ; v. 162) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-3-642-07827-9 ISBN 978-3-662-05238-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-05238-9 1. Fragmented landscapes--America. 2. Ecological disturbances--America. 3. Nature--Effect of human beings on--America.l. Bradshaw, G.A. (Gay A.), 1959- II. Marquet, P. A. (Pablo A.), 1963- III. Ronnenberg, Kathryn L. IV: Ecological studies; v. QHIOI .H69 2002 304.2'8'097--dc21
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