Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Chapter 26 TropicalRainforest Conservation:AGlobal Perspective Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack OVERVIEW The five major ...

Legend Rainforest Figure 26.1 The current global distribution of lowland tropical rainforests. (Courtesy of UNEP World Conservat ...

444 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack recently,honeybees.Conversely,somefunctionally important groups are found in only ...

Table 26.1 The state of the world’s tropical rainforests: statistics on the forests and human populations of major rainforest co ...

446 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack Even in so-called “selective logging,” the pro- cess of finding, cutting, preparin ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 447 Figure 26.2 Agriculture is a major contributor to rainforest destruction. In this case, ind ...

448 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack Asia Southeast Asia has less than half its forest remaining and has the highest ra ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 449 has resulted in endemism of more than 80% in most groups of terrestrial organisms, while ex ...

450 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack companies on the ground, traders in Singapore, buyers in Hong Kong, and factories ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 451 biodiversity. Costa Rica’s parks are relatively suc- cessful(Sánchez-Azofeifaet al.2003),fo ...

452 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack away. The “fences and fines” approach to conser- vation that has worked so well in ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 453 Certification Another approach to encouraging the sus- tainable exploitation of rainforest ...

454 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack Balmford, A. and Whitten, T. (2003) Who should pay for tropical conservation, and ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 455 Fearnside, P.M. (2001) Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil.Environ ...

456 Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack McDonald, G. and Lane, M. (2002)Securing the Wet Tropics?Federation Press, Leichha ...

Tropical Rainforest Conservation 457 Present and Future. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 507–526. Struhsaker, T.T., St ...

Chapter 27 EnvironmentalPromiseand PerilintheAmazon William F. Laurance OVERVIEW The Amazon basin sustains about half of the wor ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 459 strips of rainforest vegetation (termed “gallery for- est”) often persist alon ...

460 William F. Laurance 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 Annual deforestation ( ×^10 6 ha) Ye ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 461 Figure 27.2 Industrial logging, like this operation in northern Bolivia, creat ...