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462 William F. Laurance timber corporations from Malaysia, Indonesia, China, South Korea, and other Asian nations have moved rap ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 463 Tailândia Paragominas Figure 27.3 Different land uses in the Brazilian Amazon ...

Increased wind disturbance Elevated tree mortality Invasion of disturbance-adapted butterflies Altered spp. composition of leaf- ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 465 Figure 27.5 Ground-fires can penetrate several kilometers into forests, killin ...

466 William F. Laurance 0 5 10 15 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 Fire frequency (no. per century) Distance to edge (m) Figure 27.6 Fragme ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 467 large-scale colonization schemes, a tax-free devel- opment zone, and credit in ...

468 William F. Laurance Figure 27.7 Optimistic (above) and non-optimistic (below) scenarios for the Brazilian Amazon, showin gpr ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 469 National Parks, this figure will rise in coming years. Via the Amazon Regional ...

470 William F. Laurance of the current system of protected and semi- protected areas. Although many of these new conservation un ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 471 Cochrane, M.A., Alencar, A., Schulze, M.D.et al.(1999) Positive feedbacks in t ...

472 William F. Laurance Laurance, S.G.W., Stouffer, P.C., and Laurance, W.F. (2004)Effectsof roadclearingsonmovementpatterns of ...

Environmental Promise and Peril in the Amazon 473 Nepstad, D.C., Verissimo, A., Alencar, A.et al.(1999b) Large-scale impoverishm ...

Chapter 28 CONTRIBUTIONSOFECOLOGISTS TOTROPICALFOREST CONSERVATION Francis E. Putz and Pieter A. Zuidema OVERVIEW Given that tro ...

Ecologists and Forest Conservation 475 conserving forests and promoting social welfare. We then focus on how ecologists might su ...

476 Francis E. Putz and Pieter A. Zuidema conservation recommendations are grounded primarily in ecological theory (e.g., Picket ...

Ecologists and Forest Conservation 477 populations of tree species reportedly vary, from rapid losses (e.g., Leighet al. 1993) t ...

478 Francis E. Putz and Pieter A. Zuidema Landscape setting Urban Remote Recreational/Educational value ____( ) Small Great Biod ...

Ecologists and Forest Conservation 479 Financial profitability (per ha) Low High Biodiversity conservation value (per ha)Small G ...

480 Francis E. Putz and Pieter A. Zuidema Where the objective of forest management is sustained timber yield (STY) of shade-tole ...

Ecologists and Forest Conservation 481 (Chapter 26, this volume), the drivers of forest conversion vary from region to region, w ...