How Landscapes Change

• I Causes and Processes of Landscape Fragmentation.- 1 Biodiversity and Human Intervention During the Last 11,000 Years in North-Central Chile.- 2 Beyond Malthus and Perverse Incentives: Economic Globalization, Forest Conversion and Habitat Fragmentation.- 3 Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity in Central Amazonia.- 4 Climatic and Human Influences on Fire Regimes in Temperate Forest Ecosystems in North and South America.- 5 Natural Versus Anthropogenic Sources of Amazonian Biodiversity: the Continuing Quest for El Dorado.- II Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Fragmentation.- 6 Bees Not to Be? Responses of Insect Pollinator Faunas and Flower Pollination to Habitat Fragmentation.- 7 Implications of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics to the Genetic Analysis of Fragmentation.- 8 Forest Fragmentation, Plant Regeneration and Invasion Processes Across Edges in Central Chile.- 9 The Ecological Consequences of a Fragmentation-Mediated Invasion: The Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile, in Southern California.- III Ecosystem Fragmentation: Theory, Methods, and Implications for Conservation.- 10 A Review and Synthesis of Conceptual Frameworks for the Study of Forest Fragmentation.- 11 Reflections on Landscape Experiments and Ecological Theory: Tools for the Study of Habitat Fragmentation.- 12 Spatial Autocorrelation, Dispersal and the Maintenance of Source-Sink Populations.- 13 Patch Dynamics, Habitat Degradation and Space in Metapopulations.- 14 How Much Functional Redundancy Is Out There, or, Are We Willing to Do Away with Potential Backup Species?.- 15 Predicting Distributions of South American Migrant Birds in Fragmented Environments: A Possible Approach Based on Climate.- 16 Habitat Heterogeneity on a Forest-Savanna Ecotone in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (SantaCruz, Bolivia): Implications for the Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate.- 17 Bandages for Wounded Landscapes: Faunal Corridors and Their Role in Wildlife Conservation in the Americas.- 18 Management of the Semi-Natural Matrix.- Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas Synthesis and Final Reflections.

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