Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation and Linear Clearings on Australian Rainforest Biota

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 295-306

  Laurance, William F ^a,b   Goosem, Miriam ^c,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Wet Tropics forests and sustaining direct human disturbances; Deleterious effects of forest fragmentation and their mitigation; Edge effects physical and biotic changes; Edge related changes over even larger spatial scales for forests; Environmental synergisms; Impacts of habitat fragmentation and linear clearings; Isolation and barrier effects; Species invasions

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

BARRIER EFFECTS; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL SYNERGISMS; FOREST FRAGMENTATIONS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES INVASIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 37749002199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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