Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests

By: William F. Laurance (Editor), Carlos A. Peres (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests reveals the remarkably diverse panoply of perils to tropical forests and their biota, with particular emphasis on recent dangers. William F. Laurance and Carlos A. Peres identify four categories of emerging threats: those that have only recently appeared, such as the virulent chytrid fungus that is decimating rainforest amphibians throughout the tropical world; those that are growing rapidly in importance, like destructive surface fires; those that are poorly understood, namely global warming and other climatic and atmospheric changes; and environmental synergisms, whereby two or more simultaneous threats--such as habitat fragmentation and wildfires, or logging and hunting--can dramatically increase local extinction of tropical species. In addition to documenting the vulnerability of tropical rainforests, the volume focuses on strategies for mitigating and combating emerging threats. A timely and compelling book intended for researchers, students, and conservation practitioners, Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests will interest anyone concerned about the fate of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems.

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"Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests provides cutting-edge and up-to-date chapters written by leading scientists. . . . . [It] is written lucidly and provides topical information on issues of great interest to conservation biologists. It is intended to be cross-cutting and should appeal to a wide audience, including resource managers, conservationists, economists and students, in addition to biologists and scientists. This book is yet another reminder that efforts to conserve tropical forests should intensify if their current decline is to be halted, or even reversed."-Navjot S. Sodhi, Trends in Ecology and Evolution

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Foreword
Introduction: What Are Emerging Threats?
Emerging Threats from Climatic and Atmospheric Change
Introductory comments
Impacts of Global Change on the Structure, Dynamics, and Functioning of South American Tropical Forests
Climate Change as a Threat to the Biodiversity of Tropical Rainforests in Australia
Dynamic Climate and Land-Use Change in the Woodland and Savanna Ecosystems of Subtropical Africa
Impacts of Tropical Deforestation on Regional and Global Hydroclimatology
Synergistic Effects of Simultaneous Environmental Changes
Introductory comments
Fragments and Fire: Alarming Synergisms among Forest Disturbance, Local Climate Change, and Burning in the Amazon
Synergistic Effects of Habitat Disturbance and Hunting in Amazonian Forest Fragments
Human Encroachment and Vegetation Change in Isolated Forest Reserves: The Case of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Emerging Pathogens and Invaders
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Emerging Infectious-Disease Threats to Tropical Forest Ecosystems
Habitat Disturbance and the Proliferation of Plant Diseases
Ebola and Commercial Hunting: Dim Prospects for African Apes
Current Decline of the "Dodo Tree": A Case of Broken-Down Interactions with Extinct Species or the Result of New Interactions with Alien Invaders?
Insidious and Poorly Understood Threats
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Consequences of Cryptic and Recurring Fire Disturbances for Ecosystem Structure and Biodiversity in Amazonian Forests
Disperser-Free Tropical Forests Await an Unhappy Fate
Rainforest Roads and the Future of Forest-Dependent Wildlife: A Case Study of Understory Birds
Emerging Threats to Birds in Brazilian Atlantic Forests: The Roles of Forest Loss and Configuration in a Severely Fragmented Ecosystem
Megadiversity in Crisis: Politics, Policies, and Governance in Indonesia's Forests
Solving and Mitigating Emerging Threats
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Who Should Pay for Tropical Forest Conservation, and How Could the Costs Be Met?
Conservation Incentive Agreements as an Alternative to Tropical Forest Exploitation
Mitigation of Climatic Change in the Amazon
Tourism and Tropical Rainforests: Opportunity or Threat?
Managing Threats from Bushmeat Hunting in a Timber Concession in the Republic of
Tropical Forests: A Protected-Area Strategy for the Twenty-first Century
Summary and Implications
Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests: What We Know and What We Don't Know
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