Ecology of fragmented landscapes / Sharon K. Collinge ; foreword by Richard T.T. Forman.
"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...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.